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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM) and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group, D12, to mainstream recognition. As well as being a member of D12, Eminem is also one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, with Royce da 5'9". Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in the world and is the best selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines including the Rolling Stone magazine which has ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The same magazine has declared him The King of Hip Hop. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has achieved ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200. He has sold more than 42 million tracks and 41 million albums in the United States, and nearly 90 million albums worldwide.
Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP. That first album, The Marshall Mathers LP and his third major album, The Eminem Show, all won Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. The Marshall Mathers LP is also considered one of Eminem's best and most successful albums. Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, on May 15, 2009. In 2010, Eminem released his seventh studio album Recovery, which was an international success. Recovery was also named the best selling album worldwide of 2010 joining The Eminem Show, which was the best seller of 2002. Eminem won Grammy Awards for both Relapse and Recovery, giving him a total of 13 Grammys in his career. Eminem has named Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane, Newcleus, the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, AZ, Nas, and Ice-T amongst others as his influences.
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New Zealand
New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa) is an island country located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses ‒ that of the North and South Islands ‒ as well as numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans.
During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of both animal and plant life. Most notable are the large number of unique bird species, many of which became extinct after the arrival of humans and introduced mammals. With a mild maritime climate, the land was mostly covered in forest. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions caused by the Pacific and Indo-Australian Plates clashing beneath the earth's surface.
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Wellington
Wellington (
/ˈwɛlɪŋtən/) is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand. It is at the southwestern tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range. It is home to 393,400 residents.
The Wellington urban area is the major population centre of the southern North Island, and is the seat of the Wellington Region – which in addition to the urban area covers the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa. The urban area includes four cities: Wellington, on the peninsula between Cook Strait and Wellington Harbour, contains the central business district and about half of Wellington's population; Porirua on Porirua Harbour to the north is notable for its large Māori and Pacific Island communities; Lower Hutt and Upper Hutt are largely suburban areas to the northeast, together known as the Hutt Valley. Wellington also holds the distinction of being the world's southernmost capital city.
In 2008, Wellington was classified as a Gamma World City in the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University. The 2010 Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Wellington 12th in the world. In 2011 Lonely Planet Best in Travel 2011 named Wellington as fourth in its Top 10 Cities to Visit in 2011, referring to the New Zealand capital as the "coolest little capital in the world".
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Aaron Sorkin
Aaron Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an Academy and Emmy award winning American screenwriter, producer, and playwright, whose works include A Few Good Men, The American President, The West Wing, Sports Night, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Charlie Wilson's War, The Social Network, and Moneyball.
After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, sporadically employed actor. He found his passion in writing plays, and quickly established himself as a promising young playwright. His stage play A Few Good Men caught the attention of Hollywood producer David Brown, who bought the film rights before the play even premiered.
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Adam Clayton
Adam Charles Clayton (born 13 March 1960) is a musician, best known as the bassist of the Irish rock band U2. Clayton has resided in County Dublin since the time his family moved to Malahide when he was five years old in 1965. Clayton is well known for his bass playing on songs such as "New Year's Day", "Bullet the Blue Sky", "With or Without You", "Mysterious Ways", "Get on Your Boots", and "Magnificent". His work on No Line on the Horizon has been cited as his best bass playing. He has worked on several solo projects throughout his career, such as his work with fellow band member Larry Mullen Jr. on the theme of 1996's Mission: Impossible. Clayton, as a part of U2, has won 22 Grammy awards.
Clayton is the elder child of Brian and Jo Clayton, born on 13 March 1960 in Chinnor, Oxfordshire, England. When Clayton was five years old, his family moved from Oxfordshire to Malahide, County Dublin, where Clayton's brother Sebastian was born. The Clayton family became friends with the Evans family, with their sons Dik and Dave (more commonly known as The Edge), who were both in the original group, Feedback, that spawned U2.
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Akiva Goldsman
Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) from Walker Valley, New York is an American film and television writer, director, and producer.
He received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the 2001 film, A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Goldsman has been involved specifically with Hollywood films. His filmography includes the films A Beautiful Mind, I Am Legend and Cinderella Man, as well as more serious dramas, and numerous rewrites both credited and uncredited. In 2006 Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for a high profile project, adapting Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's much-anticipated film version, receiving mixed reviews for his work.
Goldsman currently serves as a writer, director, and consulting producer on the FOX science-fiction/horror series Fringe.
Akiva Goldsman was born in New York City on July 7, 1962 to Tev Goldsman, a therapist, and Mira Rothenberg, a child psychologist. Both parents ran a group home for emotionally disturbed children. Goldsman's parents were occupied with their work, and Goldsman said, "By the time I was 10 or 12, I realized they had taken my parents away from me. I wanted nothing more to do with that world. I wanted to be a writer. I had a fantasy that someday I'd see my name on a book." In 1983, Goldsman attended Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After graduation, Goldsman studied creative writing at New York University. He began writing screenplays, and in 1994, he wrote the screenplay that would become the film Silent Fall. Afterward, director Joel Schumacher hired Goldsman to write The Client.
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Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne (born Constantine Alexander Payne; February 10, 1961) is an American film director and screenwriter, known for films like Sideways (2004) and Election (1999). His films are noted for their dark humor and satirical depictions of contemporary American society.
Payne was born in Omaha, Nebraska, the son of Peggy (née Constantine) and George Payne, restaurant owners. He is of Greek descent (his grandfather Anglicized the last name from Papadopoulos). He was the youngest of three sons and grew up in the same neighborhood as billionaire Warren Buffett. Payne attended Creighton Preparatory School high school and later Stanford University, where he double majored in Spanish and History. As a part of his Spanish degree, he studied at the University of Salamanca (Spain). Payne got his MFA in 1990 from the UCLA Film School.
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Alvin Sargent
Alvin Sargent (born April 12, 1927) is an American screenwriter. He has won two Academy Awards for his screenplays (1978 and 1981) and has been involved in the writing of all movies to date in the Spider-Man film series.
Sargent was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in 1945. As of 2006, he is one of 35 alumni to be on the school's Wall of Fame.
Sargent began writing for television in 1953 and through the 1960s he scripted episodes for Route 66, Ben Casey and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. He collaborated on his first screenplay for a motion picture in 1966 and gained recognition for I Walk the Line and Paper Moon for which he won the WGA Award for Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium and was nominated for an Academy Award. He won the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay in 1978 for the film Julia and again in 1981 for Ordinary People. He collaborated on the 2004 screenplay for Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3 released in 2007.
He was married to producer Laura Ziskin for 25 years, until her death in 2011. His brother was writer and producer Herb Sargent.
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Andrew Kevin Walker
Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964) is an American BAFTA-nominated screenwriter. He is known for having written Seven (1995), for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films, including 8mm (1999), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and many uncredited script rewrites.
Walker was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, though some time during his childhood, he moved to Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he was raised. He attended the Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School until his graduation in 1982. Walker soon enrolled in Penn State University to pursue a career in film production. He graduated from Penn State in 1986, with a Bachelor of Arts in film and video.
Shortly after completing his education, he moved to New York City and began a career in retail at Tower Records. During that time, he worked on several projects, but Walker was unable to find much success until 1991, when he completed the script for Seven. Walker decided to move to Los Angeles to sell his screenplay. There, he personally contacted screenwriter David Koepp, who showed the script to executives at New Line Cinema, who ended up purchasing the rights to it. The film, however, took nearly three years to begin production. While the project was ongoing, Walker found other work as a screenwriter, including a short stint with HBO's television series Tales From the Crypt, as well as writing two other films, Brainscan (1994) and the novel adaptation Hideaway (1995).
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Andrew Niccol
Andrew M. Niccol (born 10 June 1964) is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, In Time, and Lord of War. He also wrote and co-produced The Truman Show, which earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay in 1999 and won a BAFTA award for Best Screenplay. Many of his films, such as Gattaca, S1m0ne, and The Truman Show, view societal or political issues through a fantasy-science fiction lens. Lord of War, however, is a contemporary, matter-of-fact exploration of gunrunning.
Niccol was born in Paraparaumu, New Zealand, and grew up in Auckland, where he attended Auckland Grammar School. He left New Zealand at age 21 and began directing TV ads in London. During production of S1m0ne, he met model Rachel Roberts, with whom he has two children, Jack (born 2003) and Ava (born 2008).
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Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton (born December 3, 1965) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor based at Pixar Animation Studios and Sony Pictures Animation. His film work includes writing and directing Pixar's A Bug's Life (as co-director), Finding Nemo and WALL-E, and his first live-action film, John Carter. He also co-wrote every film of the Toy Story franchise, Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University.
Finding Nemo and WALL-E earned him two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature. He was also nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Original Screenplay for both and Toy Story, and for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Toy Story 3. He also voiced Emperor Zurg in Toy Story 2 and various video games.
Stanton was born and raised in Rockport, Massachusetts. As a child, he was painfully shy and he used theatrics with his classmates to gain acceptance. In highschool, he starred in several 8mm films as well as performed in plays put on by Rockport High school's theater troupe. He studied character animation at The California Institute of the Arts and graduated from the school in 1983. His earliest known venture into professional animation was at Ralph Bakshi Productions, where he worked on The New Adventures along with other young animators like Jeff Pidgeon, Eddie Fitzgerald, Tom Minton, John Kricfalusi, and Jim Reardon. All of them have done worthwhile things, including Pidgeon who joined him at Pixar. Stanton joined Pixar in January 1990 and was the second animator (John Lasseter being the first) and ninth overall employee hired at the studio. He now lives in Mill Valley, California and is married to Julie Stanton. He has a daughter named Audrey and a son named Ben.
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Annie Lennox
Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954), is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognized female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".
Lennox embarked on a solo career in the 1990s with her debut album, Diva (1992), which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". To date, she has released five solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). She is the recipient of eight Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine. In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
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Bernie Taupin
Bernard John "Bernie" Taupin (born 22 May 1950) is an English lyricist, poet, and singer, best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John, writing the lyrics for the majority of the star's songs, making his lyrics some of the best known in pop-rock's history.
In 1967, Taupin answered an advertisement in the UK's music paper New Musical Express that was seeking new songwriters. Around the same time Elton John submitted samples of his work to the paper, and the pair were brought together, collaborating on many projects since.
Much of Taupin's childhood is reflected in his lyrics and poetry. He was born at Flatters Farmhouse which is located between the village of Anwick and the town of Sleaford in the southern part of Lincolnshire, England. Of French ancestry, his father was educated in Dijon and was employed as a stockman by a large farm estate near the town of Market Rasen and his mother worked as a nanny, having previously lived in Switzerland. The family later relocated to Rowston Manor, a significant step up from Flatters Farmhouse which had no electricity.
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Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan (
/ˈdɪlən/), born Robert Allen Zimmerman on May 24, 1941, is an American singer-songwriter, musician and artist. He has been an influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly reluctant figurehead of social unrest. A number of Dylan's early songs, such as "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They Are a-Changin'", became anthems for the US civil rights and anti-war movements. Leaving his initial base in the culture of folk music behind, Dylan's six-minute single "Like a Rolling Stone" has been described as radically altering the parameters of popular music in 1965. However, his recordings employing electric instruments attracted denunciation and criticism from others in the folk movement.
Dylan's lyrics incorporated a variety of political, social, philosophical, and literary influences. They defied existing pop music conventions and appealed hugely to the then burgeoning counterculture. Initially inspired by the songs of Woody Guthrie,Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, as well as the music and performance styles of Buddy Holly and Little Richard, Dylan has both amplified and personalized musical genres. His recording career, spanning fifty years, has explored numerous distinct traditions in American song—from folk, blues and country to gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly to English, Scottish, and Irish folk music, embracing even jazz and swing.
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Bono
Paul David Hewson (born 10 May 1960), most commonly known by his stage name Bono (/ˈbɒnoʊ/ BON-oh), is an Irish singer, musician, and humanitarian best known for being the main vocalist of the Dublin-based rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Alison Stewart, and the future members of U2. Bono writes almost all U2 lyrics, often using political, social, and religious themes. During their early years, Bono's lyrics contributed to U2's rebellious and spiritual tone. As the band matured, his lyrics became inspired more by personal experiences shared with members of U2.
Outside the band, he has collaborated and recorded with numerous artists, is managing director and a managing partner of Elevation Partners, and has refurbished and owns The Clarence Hotel in Dublin with The Edge. Bono is also widely known for his activism concerning Africa, for which he co-founded DATA, EDUN, the ONE Campaign and Product Red. He has organised and played in several benefit concerts and has met with influential politicians. Bono has been praised and criticised for his activism and involvement with U2. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, was granted an honorary knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, and was named as a Person of the Year by Time, among other awards and nominations.
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Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 24, 1957) is a critically acclaimed American director, screenwriter, animator, voice actor and producer. He is best known for having written and directed Warner Bros.' The Iron Giant (1999), and Pixar's The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). He made his live-action film directing debut with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011).
All of Bird's films have received universal acclaim (or in the case of The Iron Giant, grown in popularity with time). On Rotten Tomatoes, his four films average a 95.75% rating, making him one of the most acclaimed living filmmakers, animated or otherwise.
Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in the propane business, and his grandfather, Francis Wesley "Frank" Bird, who was born in Sligo, Ireland, was a president and chief executive of the Montana Power Company. On a tour of the Walt Disney Studios at age 11, he announced that someday he would become part of its animation team, and soon afterward began work on his own 15-minute animated short. Within two years, Bird had completed his animation, which impressed the cartoon company. By age 14, barely in high school, Bird was mentored by the animator Milt Kahl, one of Disney’s legendary Nine Old Men. Bird recalls Kahl's criticisms as ideal: Kahl would point out shortcomings by gently delivering thoughts on where Bird could improve. After graduating from Corvallis High School in Corvallis, Oregon in 1975, Bird took a three-year break. He was then awarded a scholarship by Disney to attend California Institute of the Arts, where he met and befriended another future animator, Pixar co-founder and director John Lasseter.
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Bruce Springsteen
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (born September 23, 1949), nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter-performer who records and tours with the E Street Band. Springsteen is widely known for his brand of heartland rock, poetic lyrics, and Americana sentiments centered on his native New Jersey.
Springsteen's recordings have included both commercially accessible rock albums and more somber folk-oriented works. His most successful studio albums, Born in the U.S.A. and Born to Run, showcase a talent for finding grandeur in the struggles of daily American life; he has sold more than 65 million albums in the United States and more than 120 million worldwide and he has earned numerous awards for his work, including 21 Grammy Awards, two Golden Globes and an Academy Award. He is widely regarded by many as one of the most influential songwriters of the 20th century, and in 2004, Rolling Stone ranked him as the 23rd Greatest Artist of all time.
Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and spent his childhood and high school years in Freehold Borough. He lived on South Street in Freehold Borough and attended Freehold Borough High School. His father, Douglas Frederick Springsteen, was of Dutch and Irish ancestry and worked, among other vocations, as a bus driver, although he was frequently unemployed; his surname is Dutch for jump stone. His mother, Adele Ann (née Zerilli), was a legal secretary and was of Italian ancestry. His maternal grandfather was born in Vico Equense, a city near Naples. He has two younger sisters, Virginia and Pamela. Pamela had a brief film career, but left acting to pursue still photography full time; she took photos for the Human Touch and Lucky Town albums.
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Charlie Kaufman
Charles Stuart "Charlie" Kaufman (born November 19, 1958) is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. His film work includes Being John Malkovich, Human Nature, Adaptation., Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Synecdoche, New York. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
Between 1983 and 1984, Kaufman wrote comedic articles and spoofs on spec for National Lampoon, along with colleague and friend Paul Proch. His work included parodies of Kurt Vonnegut and the X-Men. After moving to Los Angeles, Kaufman got his start in television by writing two episodes for Chris Elliott's Get a Life during the 1991-92 season. During the 1993-94 season, Kaufman worked on Fox's sketch comedy show The Edge. He later worked as a writer for Ned and Stacey and The Dana Carvey Show.
He first came to mainstream notice as the writer of Being John Malkovich (directed by Spike Jonze), earning an Oscar nomination for his effort and winning a BAFTA. He also wrote Human Nature, which was directed by Michel Gondry, and then worked with Jonze again as the screenwriter for Adaptation., which earned him another Oscar nomination and his second BAFTA. Adaptation. featured a "Charlie Kaufman" character who is a heavily fictionalized version of the screenwriter and who has an "identical twin brother", Donald, a sell-out screenwriter reflecting Kaufman's anxieties about Hollywood. The DVD edition of Adaptation. contains a filmography which lists Donald Kaufman as having written the screenplay for the movie. The credits of the film close with the words "in loving memory of Donald Kaufman".
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Christopher Nolan
Christopher Jonathan James Nolan (/ˈnoʊlən/; born 30 July 1970), also known as Chris Nolan is a British/Americanfilm director, screenwriter and producer.
He received serious notice after his second feature Memento (2000), which he wrote and directed based on a story idea by his brother, Jonathan Nolan. Jonathan went to co-write later scripts with him, including the Batman series and The Prestige. He also first collaborated with Wally Pfister, who would photograph all his subsequent films. After directing Insomnia (2002), Nolan pitched an idea for a reboot of the Batman film franchise to Warner Bros., eventually making a successful trilogy consisting of Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Inception (2010) was an original screenplay by Nolan, a heist film set in the world of "shared dreaming." Nolan co-founded Syncopy Films with his wife, Emma Thomas, and they have produced all his films since The Prestige (2006).
Nolan has also worked with screenwriter David S. Goyer, film editor Lee Smith, composers David Julyan and Hans Zimmer, special effects coordinator Chris Corbould, and actors Christian Bale, Cillian Murphy, Jeremy Theobald, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, and Michael Caine.
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Coen brothers
Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957) known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. Their films include Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, and True Grit.
The brothers write, direct and produce their films jointly, although until recently Joel received sole credit for directing and Ethan for producing. They often alternate top billing for their screenplays while sharing film credits for editor under the alias Roderick Jaynes.
Joel and Ethan Coen, of Jewish heritage, grew up in a Jewish community in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. Their father, Edward, was an economist at the University of Minnesota, and their mother, Rena, an art historian at St. Cloud State University.
When they were children, Joel saved money from mowing lawns to buy a Vivitar Super 8 camera. Together, the brothers remade movies they saw on television with a neighborhood kid, Mark Zimering ("Zeimers"),[citation needed] as the star. Their first attempt was a romp titled, Henry Kissinger, Man on the Go. Cornel Wilde's The Naked Prey (1966) became their Zeimers in Zambia, which also featured Ethan as a native with a spear.
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David Hayter
David Hayter (born February 6, 1969) is a Canadian-American voice and screen actor and screenwriter. He is best known for providing the English voices of Solid Snake and Big Boss (Naked Snake) in the Metal Gear video game series, and for writing the screenplay for X-Men and co-writing the screenplay for The Scorpion King and X2. He also wrote a screenplay for Watchmen from the comic book series of the same name, which received an enthusiastic reception from the director and original illustrator. Earlier in his acting career, he played the lead role in the live-action Guyver: Dark Hero.
Hayter was born in California to Canadian parents. He started acting at the age of 9. Hayter spent most of his childhood living around the world and at the age of 15, Hayter moved to Kobe in Japan where he graduated from the Canadian Academy, an international school, in 1987. After high school, he attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for two years until transferring to Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada where he stayed until the age of 20 when he moved to Hollywood. He did some live acting in the early 1990s, but became interested in voice acting after making a cameo appearance in an episode of the sitcom Major Dad, and later landed the role of Captain America in the popular 1994 Spider-Man animated series. He also provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III in the English version of the anime film The Castle of Cagliostro and the voice of Tamahome in the English version of the anime series Fushigi Yūgi.
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David Koepp
David Koepp (born June 9, 1963) is an American screenwriter and director. Koepp is the fourth most successful screen writer of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at just over $2 billion.
As a writer, Koepp has worked on such blockbuster Hollywood films such as Jurassic Park, Mission Impossible, and Spider-Man. Koepp had a cameo as the "Unlucky Bastard" in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, in which he was serving as Writer and Second Unit Director. He is the man who gets eaten by the T-Rex in San Diego.
His work as a director has not had quite the same box office success; films include Secret Window, Stir of Echoes, and The Trigger Effect. Koepp was reportedly paid $4,000,000 for his Panic Room screenplay. He also created the 2002 television series Hack starring David Morse. He wrote the screenplay for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and co-wrote and directed 2008's Ghost Town starring Ricky Gervais and Greg Kinnear. In 2012, Koepp directed Premium Rush which he co-wrote with John Kamps. In an August 2011 lawsuit, Joe Quirk, the author of the 1998 novel Ultimate Rush accused Koepp and the makers of Premium Rush of copyright infringement.( http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/us/21bcquirk.html )
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Diana Ossana
Diana Lynn Ossana is an American writer who has collaborated on writing screenplays, teleplays, and novels with author Larry McMurtry since they first worked together in 1992, on the semi-fictionalized biography Pretty Boy Floyd. She is a published author in her own right of several short stories and essays.
Ossana first read the Annie Proulx short story Brokeback Mountain in the October 13, 1997 issue of The New Yorker magazine. She immediately urged her writing partner McMurtry to read it and asked him if he felt they could write a screenplay based upon the story. McMurtry agreed they could. They wrote Proulx asking her for an option to the short story in order to write a screenplay. Proulx replied that although she did not see the potential for a movie in the story, she would agree to their option. Ossana and McMurtry proceeded to write the script, which they completed in early 1998. Ossana's and McMurtry's screenplay for Brokeback Mountain won the Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay and Writers Guild of America Award. Ossana, a producer on the film, also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Drama. The film was released in the United States in December 2005. Brokeback received widespread critical acclaim and it won the Golden Lion (Best Film) award at the Venice Film Festival and the Golden Globe Award for Best Picture - Drama. As a producer, Ossana joined cast and crew during the three months of shooting in Canada.
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DJ Paul
Paul Beauregard, better known by his stage name DJ Paul, is an American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee. He is one half of the Memphis-based rap group Three 6 Mafia. He is also the half-brother of former Three 6 Mafia member Lord Infamous. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". DJ Paul founded Scale-A-Ton Entertainment in 2009.
DJ Paul (Paul Beauregard) began his career as a DJ, producer, and rapper in the early 90's. He was one-half of the duo The Serial Killaz, his older half-brother Lord Infamous (Ricky Dunigan) was the other half. They released self-recorded tapes in their neighborhood, school, and local shops. "Portrait Of A Serial Killa" was their first tape, released in 1992. Also DJ Paul released numerous solo mixtapes (ex: c "Volume 12 (Pts. 1 and 2)", "Volume 15: For You Niggaz Wit' Anna", and "Volume 16: 4 Da Summa of '94").
DJ Paul rose to prominence as one of the best DJ-producers on the south side of Memphis, and met up with DJ/artist/producer Juicy J (Jordan Houston), also garnering buzz on the North side of Memphis. They noticed they had a lot of similar interests eventually merging their sound and crew members to form the super-group The Backyard Posse (later known as Triple Six Mafia). DJ Paul and Juicy J soon began producing dark, eerie tracks driven by bass-heavy beats and haunting sounds, and invited numerous Backyard Posse members to rap over the beats with them. They released the resulting tracks locally as Triple Six Mafia; years later these recordings would resurface as re-releases.
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Eddie Vedder
Eddie Vedder (born Edward Louis Severson III; December 23, 1964) is an American musician and singer-songwriter who is best known for being the lead singer and one of three guitarists of the alternative rock band Pearl Jam. Known for his powerful vocals, he is widely considered an icon of alternative rock.
He is also involved in soundtrack work and contributes to albums by other artists. In 2007, Vedder released his first solo album as a soundtrack for the film Into the Wild (2007). His second album, Ukulele Songs, along with a live DVD titled Water on the Road, was released on 31 May 2011.
Vedder was born Edward Louis Severson III in the Chicago suburb of Evanston, Illinois, son of Karen Lee Vedder and Edward Louis Severson, Jr. His parents divorced in 1965, when Vedder was one year old. His mother soon remarried a man named Peter Mueller, an attorney, and Vedder was raised believing that Mueller was his biological father. His adopted name became Edward Mueller. While living in Evanston, Vedder's family fostered seven younger children in a group home.
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Eminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III (born October 17, 1972), better known by his stage name Eminem (often stylized as EMINƎM) and by his alter ego Slim Shady, is an American rapper, record producer, songwriter and actor. Eminem's popularity brought his group, D12, to mainstream recognition. As well as being a member of D12, Eminem is also one half of the hip hop duo Bad Meets Evil, with Royce da 5'9". Eminem is one of the best-selling artists in the world and is the best selling artist of the 2000s. He has been listed and ranked as one of the greatest artists of all time by many magazines including the Rolling Stone magazine which has ranked him 82nd on its list of The 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. The same magazine has declared him The King of Hip Hop. Including his work with D12 and Bad Meets Evil, Eminem has achieved ten number-one albums on the Billboard 200. He has sold more than 42 million tracks and 41 million albums in the United States, and nearly 90 million albums worldwide.
Eminem quickly gained popularity in 1999 with his major-label debut album, The Slim Shady LP. That first album, The Marshall Mathers LP and his third major album, The Eminem Show, all won Grammy Awards, making Eminem the first artist to win Best Rap Album for three consecutive LPs. The Marshall Mathers LP is also considered one of Eminem's best and most successful albums. Eminem then went on hiatus after touring in 2005. He released his first album since 2004's Encore, titled Relapse, on May 15, 2009. In 2010, Eminem released his seventh studio album Recovery, which was an international success. Recovery was also named the best selling album worldwide of 2010 joining The Eminem Show, which was the best seller of 2002. Eminem won Grammy Awards for both Relapse and Recovery, giving him a total of 13 Grammys in his career. Eminem has named Masta Ace, Big Daddy Kane, Newcleus, the Beastie Boys, Dr. Dre, Tupac Shakur, AZ, Nas, and Ice-T amongst others as his influences.
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Fran Walsh
Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and occasional musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and Katie.
Fran Walsh has contributed to all of Jackson's films apart from his first feature Bad Taste. She won three Academy Awards in 2003, for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Original Song, all for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. She has received a total of eight Oscar nominations.
Walsh was born into a family of Irish descent in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Wellington Girls' College intent on becoming a fashion designer, but eventually became interested in music instead. Occasionally taking time off to perform in a punk band named The Wallsockets, she attended Victoria University of Wellington majoring in English literature and graduated in 1981. Walsh got her screen break writing material for Kiwi producer Grahame McLean on 1983 television film A Woman of Good Character/It's Lizzie to those Close. Later she wrote scripts for his TV show Worzel Gummidge Down Under.
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Frayser Boy
Frayser Boy (born Cedric Coleman) is an Academy Award-winning, rapper from Memphis, Tennessee. He was formerly signed to Hypnotize Minds, the label run by Three 6 Mafia members DJ Paul and Juicy J. He had released 3 albums under the Hypnotize label: Gone on That Bay (2003), Me Being Me (2005), and Da Key (2008). He will appear on Lil Wyte's album Still Doubted on the track "Gun Down".
At the 78th Academy Awards, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp" along with Three 6 Mafia members DJ Paul and Juicy J.
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Glen Hansard
Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970 in Dublin, Ireland) is the Academy Award–winning principal songwriter and vocalist/guitarist for Irish group The Frames and one half of folk rock duo, The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once. His song, "Falling Slowly", from Once, co-written with his co-star Markéta Irglová, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 2007, and earned him ten other major awards or nominations between 2007-08.
Hansard quit school at age 13 to begin busking on local Dublin streets. He formed The Frames in 1990, and they've been staples of the Irish music scene ever since. Their first album, Another Love Song, was released on Island Records in 1991, and their most recent, The Cost, was released in 2006.[citation needed]
Hansard came to international attention as guitar player Outspan Foster in the 1991 Alan Parker film The Commitments, after attending the New York Film Academy School of Acting. He has often stated that he regretted taking the role, because he felt it distracted him from his music career. In 2003, he presented the television programme Other Voices: Songs from a Room, which showcased Irish music talent on RTÉ.
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Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones. His films draw heavily on sources as diverse as weird fiction, fantasy and war.
Del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was raised in a strict Catholic household. Del Toro studied at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Cinematográficos, in Guadalajara. He first got involved in filmmaking when he was about eight years old and studied special effects and make-up with SFX artist Dick Smith. Del Toro participated in the cult series La Hora Marcada with other renowned Mexican filmmakers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón.
He spent ten years as a special effects make-up designer and formed his own company, Necropia. He also co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Later on in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang.
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Gulzar
Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1936), known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.
Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to the arts and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002. He has won a number of National Film Awards and Filmfare Awards. In 2009, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho" in the film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). On 31 January 2010, the same song won him a Grammy Award in the category of Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
Gulzar's poetry is partly published in three compilations: Chand Pukhraaj Ka, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah Paanch Pachattar (15-05-75). His short stories are published in Raavi-paar (also known as Dustkhat in Pakistan) and Dhuan (smoke).
As a lyricist, Gulzar is best known for his association with the music directors Rahul Dev Burman, A. R. Rahman and Vishal Bhardwaj. He has also worked with other leading Bollywood music directors including Sachin Dev Burman, Salil Chowdhury, Shankar Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. Along with lyrics, he has also contributed in many films as script, story and dialogue writer. Films directed by him have also won numerous awards and have been critically acclaimed. He also had worked on small screen by creating series Mirza Ghalib and Tahreer Munshi Premchand ki among others. He wrote lyrics for several Doordarshan serials including Hello Zindagi, Potli Baba ki and Jungle Book.
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Gustavo Santaolalla
Gustavo Alfredo Santaolalla (born 19 August 1951) is an Argentine musician, film composer and producer. He has won two Academy Awards for Best Original Score in two consecutive years, for Brokeback Mountain in 2005 and Babel in 2006.
Santaolalla was born in El Palomar, Argentina. His professional music career began in 1967, when he co-founded the group Arco Iris, an Argentine band that pioneered the fusion of rock and Latin American folk as part of 'rock nacional'. The band adopted the lifestyle of a yogic commune guided by former model Danais Wynnycka (known as Dana) and her partner, musician Ara Tokatlian. The band had a few hits, such as Mañanas Campestres ("Country Mornings"), and made inroads into different forms of expression (notably a ballet piece for Oscar Aráiz), but Santaolalla felt constricted by the strict requirements of Dana's teachings, which prohibited meat, alcohol and drugs. He left the group in 1975.
A year later, he assembled Soluna, in which he played alongside teenage pianist and singer Alejandro Lerner and his then-girlfriend Monica Campins. Together they recorded just one album (Energía Natural, 1977). Santaolalla left for Los Angeles, where he adopted a rock and roll sound and made the rounds with his band Wet Picnic, together with ex-Crucis member Anibal Kerpel. He briefly returned to Argentina in 1981, to produce Leon Gieco's Pensar en Nada and record his first solo album.
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Harlan Ellison
Harlan Jay Ellison (born May 27, 1934) is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.
His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media. He was editor and anthologist for two ground-breaking science fiction anthologies, Dangerous Visions and Again, Dangerous Visions. Ellison has won numerous awards including multiple Hugos, Nebulas and Edgars.
Ellison was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 27, 1934. His Jewish-American family subsequently moved to Painesville, Ohio, but returned to Cleveland in 1949, following his father's death. As a child, he had a brief career performing in minstrel shows. He frequently ran away from home, taking an array of odd jobs—including, by age 18, "tuna fisherman off the coast of Galveston, itinerant crop-picker down in New Orleans, hired gun for a wealthy neurotic, nitroglycerine truck driver in North Carolina, short order cook, cab driver, lithographer, book salesman, floorwalker in a department store, door-to-door brush salesman, and as a youngster, an actor in several productions at the Cleveland Play House".
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Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki (宮崎 駿, Miyazaki Hayao?, born January 5, 1941) is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. The success of Miyazaki's films has invited comparisons with American animator Walt Disney, British animator Nick Park and Robert Zemeckis; he has also been named one of the most influential people by Time magazine.
Born in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Miyazaki began his animation career in 1961, when he joined Toei Animation. From there, Miyazaki worked as an in-between artist for Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon where he pitched his own ideas that eventually became the movie's ending. He continued to work in various roles in the animation industry over the decade until he was able to direct his first feature film Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro which was released in 1979. After the success of his next film, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, he co-founded Studio Ghibli where he continued to produce many feature films until his temporary retirement in 1997 following Princess Mononoke.
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Howard Shore
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
He has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot (though not his score) of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 2 July 2008., a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra.
Shore is a three-time winner of the Academy Award, and has also won three Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards. He is the uncle of film composer Ryan Shore. Shore serves on the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Berklee College of Music.
Shore was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bernice (née Ash) and Mac Shore. He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. In 1970 he was the music director of Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz's short-lived TV program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magical/musical Spellbound in 1974, and he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels' hugely influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee. Shore also suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
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Irish people
The Irish people (Irish: Muintir na hÉireann or na hÉireannaigh; Ulster-Scots: Airisch or Airish fowk) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland). The Irish people's earliest ancestors are recorded in legends – they are claimed to be descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians.Lebor Gabála Érenn, a book of Irish mythology tells that Tuatha Dé Dananns were Scythian descendants.
The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Picts, Scots, and the Vikings. Due to this contact, Icelanders are noted for having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.
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James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian film director, film producer, deep-sea explorer, screenwriter, visual artist and editor. His writing and directing work includes Piranha II: The Spawning (1981), The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Dark Angel (2000–02), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and Avatar, Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as part-scientist and part-artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26, 2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible.
He has been nominated for six Academy Awards overall and won three for Titanic. In total, Cameron's directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$2 billion in North America and US$6 billion worldwide. Without adjusting for inflation, Cameron's Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing films of all time at $2.16 billion and $2.78 billion respectively. In March 2011 he was named Hollywood's top earner by Vanity Fair, with estimated 2010 earnings of $257 million.
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James Schamus
James Schamus is an award-winning screenwriter The Ice Storm and producer Brokeback Mountain, and is CEO of Focus Features, the motion picture production, financing, and worldwide distribution company whose films have included Lost in Translation, Milk, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Pianist, Coraline, and The Kids Are All Right. He is also Professor of Professional Practice in Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where he teaches film history and theory. He is the author of Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word, published by the University of Washington Press. He earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D. in English from U.C. Berkeley.
Schamus also participates as a member of the Jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18.
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Jason Reitman
Jason Reitman (born October 19, 1977) is a Canadian/Americanfilm director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for directing the films Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), Up in the Air (2009), and Young Adult (2011). As of February 2, 2010, he has received three Academy Award nominations, two of which are for Best Director. Reitman is a dual citizen of Canada and the United States.
Reitman was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Geneviève Robert, an actress sometimes billed as Geneviève Deloir, and comedy director Ivan Reitman. He has two younger sisters, Catherine, an actress, and Caroline. His father is Jewish and was born in Czechoslovakia to Holocaust survivors, and his mother is Christian and of French-Canadian descent. When he was still a child, his family moved to Los Angeles. His father, Ivan, directed the successful films Ghostbusters, Stripes, and Kindergarten Cop. Jason described his childhood self as "a loser... a movie geek... [and] shy." In the late 1980s, Reitman began appearing in small acting parts and serving as a production assistant on his father's films. He spent time in the editing rooms of his father's movies, learning the process. Throughout his 20s, instead of accepting offers to make commercial feature films, Reitman began making his own short films and directing commercials. Although he was offered the opportunity to direct Dude, Where's My Car? on two separate occasions, he declined.
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Jeff Bass
Bass Brothers is the professional name for the team of Mark and Jeff Bass, the Detroit producers responsible for grooming megastar Eminem in his early days and collaborating on much of his subsequent music. Before that they worked with George Clinton. Tracks from those sessions ended up on the P-Funk All Stars album Dope Dogs. Jeff Bass is considered one of the most influential people in Eminem's career.
On their work with Eminem, Mark and Jeff Bass are credited as F.B.T. Productions. Although Interscope marketed Dr. Dre as Eminem's major producer in order to boost his credibility as a white rapper in the hip-hop community, the Bass Brothers have in fact produced more individual tracks for the rapper than Dre. Jeff Bass performed the "Public Service Announcements" that introduce both The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP. Most recently, he performed the "Another Public Service Announcement" from D12's album Devil's Night when he got punched by Rondell Benne, who replaces him as the announcer for that album.
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Jeremy Brock
Jeremy Brock is an English actor, producer, writer, fisher and director whose works include the screenplays Mrs. Brown, Driving Lessons, Last King of Scotland, and Charlotte Gray.
His awards include the Evening Standard award for Mrs. Brown. In 2007 he received the BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay for The Last King of Scotland, co-written with Peter Morgan. Not only was he the producer, he also likes to fish: as a boy his father, a skilled fisherman, taught him the proper techniques to become the same.
Brock has also worked on the dramas Casualty and Holby City. He is the co-creator of Casualty with Paul Unwin.
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Jim Harrison
James "Jim" Harrison (born December 11, 1937) is an American author known for his poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, and writings about food. He has been called "a force of nature", and his work has been compared to that of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Harrison's characters tend to be rural by birth and to have retained some qualities of their agrarian pioneer heritage by dint of their intelligence and some formal education. They attune themselves to both the natural and the civilized world, surrounded by excesses but determined to live their lives as well as possible.
Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia (Wahlgren) Harrison, both avid readers.
He became blind in one eye after a childhood accident ("My left eye is blind and jogs like/a milky sparrow in its socket"). When he was 21 his father and sister died in an automobile accident. He was educated at Michigan State University where he received his B.A. (1960) and M.A. (1964) in comparative literature. In 1959, he married Linda King, with whom he has two daughters. After a short stint as assistant professor of English at State University of New York, Stony Brook (1965–66), he became a full-time writer. His awards include National Academy of Arts grants (1967, 1968, and 1969), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1969–70), the Spirit of the West Award from the Mountain & Plains Booksellers Association, and election to the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2007).
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Jim Rash
James “Jim” Rash (born July 15, 1970) is an American actor, comedian, producer, and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Rash was born in Charlotte, North Carolina. He graduated from Charlotte Latin School in Charlotte, and after graduating there spent a post-graduate year at the Lawrenceville School, located in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.
Rash played Mr. Grayson/Stitches, a sidekick to the supervillain 'Royal Pain' in the 2005 film Sky High and as the recurring characters Fenton on That '70s Show, and "Andrew the Whore House Guy" on Reno 911!. He also guest starred in the last episode of Friends, and played the role of Head T.A. Philip in Slackers. Rash currently is a series regular on Community as Dean Pelton after being a recurring character the first two seasons.
Rash and comedy partner Nat Faxon have recently moved into screenwriting. Their screenplay, based on Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel The Descendants, was on the 2008 edition of the Black List, a list of the most popular unproduced scripts in Hollywood.The film was produced in Hawaii, directed by Alexander Payne and starring George Clooney, and was released on November 18, 2011 to critical acclaim. Payne, Faxon and Rash received a Golden Globe nomination and won an Academy Award for their work.
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Jim Reardon
Jim Reardon is an animation director and storyboard consultant, best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons. He has directed over 30 episodes of the series, and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15. Reardon attended the world renowned Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, where one of his students projects, the satirical cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986), has become a cult classic through the likes of YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and later worked on Tiny Toon Adventures. He has been described by Ralph Bakshi as "one of the best cartoon writers in the business".
Reardon supervised the storyboard department and co-wrote the Pixar film WALL-E with Andrew Stanton, which was released on June 27, 2008. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for WALL-E at the 81st Academy Awards.
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Joe Stillman
Joseph Stillman is an American television and movie writer, producer and director.
Before becoming a screenwriter he worked for several TV shows like Beavis and Butt-Head, King of the Hill, Doug and The Adventures of Pete & Pete.
Stillman first screen credits were on Joseph: King of Dreams and his second on Shrek, both for DreamWorks. His most recent credits are on Planet 51 for TriStar and Gulliver's Travels for 20th Century Fox.
He is currently working on an upcoming film Alien Zoo, a live-action/CG animated comedy for Warner Bros..
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Jonathan Nolan
Jonathan Nolan (born June 6, 1976) is a British-American author and screenwriter. His short story "Memento Mori" was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the basis for the screenplay for the critically acclaimed film Memento. He has also co-written the screenplays for The Prestige and The Dark Knight, with his brother. He recently created the CBS drama Person of Interest. He has also been credited under his nickname of Jonah.
He was born in London, England, to an English father and American mother. He was raised in the Chicago area. Nolan attended Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Illinois, graduating in 1994, and then graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1999, where he majored in English and was a staff writer for The Hoya.
While his brother, Christopher, speaks with a British accent, Jonathan speaks with an American accent.
Nolan describes his successful working relationship with his brother in the production notes of The Prestige: "I’ve always suspected that it has something to do with the fact that he’s left-handed and I’m right-handed, because he’s somehow able to look at my ideas and flip them around in a way that’s just a little bit more twisted and interesting. It’s great to be able to work with him like that." In addition, they also contrast in the way they speak; both brothers have mixed American and British accents, Jonathan has a more American accent while Christopher has a more British accent.
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Jorge Drexler
Jorge Drexler (born Jorge Abner Drexler Prada; September 21, 1964) is an Uruguayan musician, actor, and doctor specialized on otolaryngology.
In 2004 Drexler won wide acclaim after becoming the first Uruguayan ever to win an Academy Award. He won for composing the song "Al Otro Lado del Río" from The Motorcycle Diaries.
Drexler was born in Montevideo. His father, a German Jew, fled to Uruguay with his family at the age of four to escape the Holocaust. His mother is a Christian of mixed Spanish, French and Portuguese descent. Drexler was raised Jewish, but embraces Christian tradition as well.
Like much of his family, he studied medicine and became an otolaryngologist ear, nose and throat specialist. Drexler began playing piano at age five, before attending guitar and composition classes. Although he had an interest in music, he became a doctor like both of his parents. He attended medical school in Montevideo. During his time in medical school, Drexler took a break to hitchhike through Brazil.
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Joss Whedon
Joseph Hill "Joss" Whedon ( /ˈwiːdən/; born June 23, 1964) is an American screenwriter, executive producer, director, comic book writer, occasional composer and actor, founder of Mutant Enemy Productions and co-creator of Bellwether Pictures. He is best known as the creator and showrunner of the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), Angel (1999–2004), Firefly (2002) and Dollhouse (2009–2010), as well as the short film Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008). Whedon co-wrote and produced the horror film The Cabin in the Woods (2012), and wrote and directed the film adaptation of Marvel's The Avengers (2012).
He is also notable for his work in film, comic books, and online media. Many of Whedon's projects enjoy cult status.
Joss Whedon was born in New York City. He has been described as the world's first third-generation TV writer, as he is the son of Tom Whedon, a screenwriter for The Electric Company in the 1970s and The Golden Girls in the 1980s, and the grandson of John Whedon, a writer for The Donna Reed Show in the 1950s. His mother, Lee Stearns, taught history at Riverdale Country School as Lee Whedon, and was an unpublished novelist. Joss Whedon is the younger brother of Samuel and Matthew Whedon and older brother of writers Jed Whedon and Zack Whedon.
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Juicy J
Jordan Houston, better known by his stage name Juicy J (born April 5, 1977) is an Academy Award-winning American rapper and record producer from Memphis, Tennessee and is the co-founder and a member of the duo Three 6 Mafia (formerly known as Triple Six Mafia). He is also the younger brother of fellow member, Project Pat. His second solo album, Hustle Till I Die, was released June 16, 2009. He won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "It's Hard out Here for a Pimp". In December 2011 Juicy J confirmed rumors that he was the newest member of Wiz Khalifa's "Taylor Gang." He is featured with other members of Taylor Gang on the cover of Source Magazine's May 2012 issue.
Juicy J is most notable for his crunk style of rapping, highlighted by his patented "heavy-breathing" and "stomping" background sound effects. Juicy J's production style is characterized by fast-rolling high hats, sharp snares, and deep cinematic bass. He also incorporates samples from classic soul artists such as Willie Hutch, David Ruffin, and Isaac Hayes.
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Larry McMurtry
Larry Jeff McMurtry (born June 3, 1936) is an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1975 novel Terms of Endearment, his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries and both the films of Terms of Endearment and Brokeback Mountain won Academy Awards. He also awarded Brian Allen Carr the inaugural Texas Observer Story Prize.
McMurtry was born in Archer City, 25 miles from Wichita Falls, Texas, the son of Hazel Ruth (née McIver) and William Jefferson McMurtry, who was a rancher. He grew up on a ranch outside Archer City, Texas, which is the model for the town of Thalia that appears in much of his fiction. He earned degrees from University of North Texas (B.A. 1958) and Rice University (M.A. 1960).
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Markéta Irglová
Markéta Irglová (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmarkɛːta ˈɪrɡlovaː]) (born 28 February 1988, in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic) is a Czech singer-songwriter, musician and actress.
Irglová began taking piano lessons at age 8 and began playing the guitar at age 9.[citation needed]
Irglová is a member of the band The Swell Season with Glen Hansard. The band released its eponymous album on Overcoat Recordings in 2006. In 2007, Irglova co-starred in the indie movie Once. Irglová co-wrote most of the songs for the film including "Falling Slowly," which received an Academy Award for Best Original Song. The movie won the World Cinema Audience Award for a dramatic film at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Irglová appeared on the 2007 I'm Not There soundtrack with the Swell Season's version of Bob Dylan's "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere".
She began a relationship with Hansard during the making of the film Once. She ended her romantic relationship with Hansard in 2009 and in June 2011, married sound engineer, Tim Iseler The couple lives together in New York City.
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Melissa Etheridge
Melissa Lou Etheridge (born May 29, 1961) is an American rock singer-songwriter and activist.
Etheridge is known for her mixture of confessional lyrics, pop-based folk-rock, and raspy, smoky vocals. She has also been an iconic gay and lesbian activist since her public coming out in January 1993.
Born in Leavenworth, Kansas, the younger of two girls, to John Etheridge, a psychology teacher at Leavenworth High School, and Elizabeth Williamson, a computer consultant. She attended David Brewer School, which is still located at 17th and Osage Streets. She graduated in 1979 from Leavenworth High School (LHS), 10th Avenue and Halderman. Etheridge was a member of the first "Power and Life" musical/dance group at LHS which is still active today. Her childhood home was at 1902 Miami Street.
Etheridge's interest in music began early; she picked up her first guitar at 8. She began to play in all-men country music groups throughout her teenage years, until she moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music.
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Michael Colleary
Michael Colleary is an American screenwriter, film producer and television writer. His writing credits include Face/Off, Firehouse Dog, The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
He is a frequent collaborator with Mike Werb in which they won a Saturn Award for their work on Face/Off. Colleary most recently wrote for the Cartoon Network live-action series Unnatural History.
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Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton ( /ˈkraɪtən/; rhymes with frighten; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008), best known as Michael Crichton, was an American best-selling author, producer, director, and screenwriter, best known for his work in the science fiction, medical fiction, and thriller genres. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and many have been adapted into films. In 1994, Crichton became the only creative artist ever to have works simultaneously charting at #1 in television, film, and book sales (with ER, Jurassic Park, and Disclosure, respectively).
His literary works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. His novels epitomize the techno-thriller genre of literature, often exploring technology and failures of human interaction with it, especially resulting in catastrophes with biotechnology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. He was the author of, among others, Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain, Congo, Travels, Sphere, Rising Sun, Disclosure, The Lost World, Airframe, Timeline, Prey, State of Fear, Next (the final book published before his death), Pirate Latitudes (published November 24, 2009), and a final unfinished techno-thriller, Micro, which was published in November 2011.
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Michael Dougherty
Michael Dougherty is a screenwriter who is known for his work with Dan Harris on the scripts for Bryan Singer's films X2 and Superman Returns. He's also known for writing and directing the cult classic horror comedy Trick 'r Treat.
Dougherty attended the Tisch School of Arts at New York University in the Maurice Kanbar Institute of Film and Television, which is where he produced Season's Greetings (1996).
Was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio
His directorial debut, Trick 'r Treat, is based on his own script, and was produced by Bryan Singer. It played at several film festivals, before being released on DVD on October 6, 2009 in the US and Canada.
His mother is Vietnamese. Dougherty is an accomplished artist and some of his artwork is displayed on his official website.
Director Bryan Singer and Superman Returns screenwriters Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris provided the plots to four comic book prequels to Superman Returns. The four forty-page comic book prequels were published by DC Comics throughout the month of June 2006 and bridged the gap between the second Superman film and Superman Returns.
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Mick Jagger
Sir Michael Philip "Mick" Jagger, (born 26 July 1943) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and actor, best known as the lead vocalist and a founder member of The Rolling Stones.
Jagger's career has spanned over fifty years. Allmusic has described Jagger as "one of the most popular and influential frontmen in the history of rock & roll". His distinctive voice and performance, along with Keith Richards' guitar style, have been the trademark of The Rolling Stones throughout the career of the band. In 1989, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with The Rolling Stones.
Jagger gained much press notoriety for admitted drug use and romantic involvements, and was often portrayed as a counterculture figure. In the late 1960s Jagger began acting in films (starting with Performance and Ned Kelly), to mixed reception. In 1985, Jagger released his first solo album, She's the Boss, and was knighted in 2003. In early 2009, he joined the eclectic supergroup SuperHeavy.
Jagger was born into a middle class family at Livingstone Hospital, in Dartford, Kent, England. His father, Basil Fanshawe ("Joe") Jagger (13 April 1913 – 11 November 2006), and his grandfather David Ernest Jagger were both teachers. His mother, Eva Ensley Mary (née Scutts; 6 April 1913 – 18 May 2000), born in New South Wales, Australia, was a hairdresser and an active member of the Conservative Party. Jagger is the elder of two sons (his brother Chris Jagger was born on 19 December 1947) and was raised to follow in his father's career path.
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Mike Werb
Mike Werb is an American screenwriter, whose writing credits include Face/Off, The Mask and the story for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
A Los Angeles native, Werb attended Stanford. He is a UCLA Film School graduate.
His frequent collaborator is Michael Colleary. The duo won a Saturn Award for Best Writing for Face/Off in 1998. They previously worked on projects "Top Ten", "Stretch Armstrong" and "King's Ransom" (the latter one for director John Woo), but neither of these films were produced. He is the creator of Unnatural History.
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Nat Faxon
Nat Faxon is an American actor, comedian and Academy Award-winning screenwriter.
Faxon's early years started in the seaside community of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Faxon is a graduate of Brookwood School(Manchester-by-the sea, Massachusetts), Holderness School, and Hamilton College. As an actor, he is best known for his appearances in comedic films such as Orange County (2002), Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007), and several Broken Lizard films including Beerfest (2006). He co-starred in Darren Star's semi-autobiographical satire Grosse Pointe and had recurring roles in several television series such as The Cleveland Show, Joey, Up All Night and Reno 911!. He was also featured in a series of prominent Holiday Inn commercials featuring Joe Buck as well as an ad by Blockbuster.
Faxon is an alumnus of the Los Angeles-based improvisational and sketch comedy troupe The Groundlings.
Faxon and writing partner Jim Rash, whom he met while performing at The Groundlings, most recently co-wrote the screenplay for the film The Descendants, starring George Clooney and directed by Alexander Payne. On February 26, 2012, the screenplay for The Descendants won an Oscar.
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Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp (born 17 September 1979) is a South African-Canadian film and advertisement writer and director. Blomkamp employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects. He is best known as the co-writer and director of critically acclaimed District 9, his only feature film to date. He is based out of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Time named Blomkamp as one of the 100 Most Influential People of 2009. Forbes magazine named him as the 21st most powerful celebrity from Africa.
Blomkamp was born in Johannesburg, South Africa. At 16, he met Sharlto Copley who had also attended Redhill High School in Johannesburg. Copley provided Blomkamp with the use of computers at his production company in order to pursue his passion and talent for 3D animation and design - in return, Blomkamp assisted Copley in creating 3D work for pitches on various projects. His family moved to Vancouver when Blomkamp was 18, where he enrolled in Vancouver Film School. In 2003, Blomkamp was hired to illustrate photo-real future aircraft for Popular Science's "Next century in Aviation" and in 2004 was hired to illustrate "The Future of the Automobile". Blomkamp worked as a visual effects artist at The Embassy Visual Effects in Vancouver as well as Rainmaker Digital Effects. Blomkamp was signed by Toronto commercial house Spy Films.
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Pete Docter
Peter Hans "Pete" Docter (born October 9, 1968) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer and voice actor from Bloomington, Minnesota. He is best known for directing the films Monsters, Inc. and Up, and as a key figure and collaborator in Pixar Animation Studios. The A. V. Club has called him "almost universally successful". He has been nominated for six Oscars (one win thus far for Up -- Best Animated Feature), three Annie Awards (winning two), a BAFTA Children's Film Award (which he won), and a Hochi Film Award (which he won). He has described himself as a "geeky kid from Minnesota who likes to draw cartoons."
He is currently directing an upcoming animated feature, set for release on June 19, 2015, and described as "...an inventive new film that explores a world that everyone knows, but no one has seen: inside the human mind."
Docter was born in Bloomington, Minnesota, growing up introverted and socially isolated, preferring to work alone and having to remind himself to connect with others. He often played in the creek beside his house, pretending to be Indiana Jones and acting out scenes. A junior-high classmate later described him as "this kid who was really tall, but who was kind of awkward, maybe getting picked on by the school bullies because his voice change at puberty was very rough".
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Peter Jackson
Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies beginning with Bad Taste (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.
His films also include Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992), Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners (1996), King Kong (2005),The Lovely Bones (2009), and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013). He is also the producer of District 9 (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
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Peter Morgan
Peter Morgan (born 10 April 1963) is an English film writer and playwright best known for writing the films and plays The Deal, The Queen, Frost/Nixon, and The Special Relationship.
Morgan was born in London, the son of refugees; his mother, Inga (née Bojcek), was a Catholic Pole who fled the Soviets, and his father, Arthur Morgenthau, was a German Jew who fled the Nazis, arriving in London in 1933. His father, a businessman, died when Morgan was aged 9. Morgan attended boarding school at Downside School, Somerset, and gained a degree in Fine Art from the University of Leeds.
Morgan wrote television scripts throughout the 1990s, including an episode of Rik Mayall Presents... and the Comedy Premiere The Chest. He wrote the screenplay to the romantic comedy Martha, Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence (1998) and had some success with the TV series The Jury (2002). He broke through with The Deal, a 2003 television drama about the power-sharing deal between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown that was struck in the Granita restaurant in London. He received his Academy Award-nomination for The Deal's follow-up, The Queen (2006) that showed how the death of Princess Diana impacted Blair and the Royal Family. His work on the film awarded him a Golden Globe from the Hollywood Foreign Press, and Helen Mirren won numerous awards for playing the title role.
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Peter Straughan
Peter Straughan (born 1968) is a playwright and author, based in the north-east of England. He was writer-in-residence at Newcastle's Live Theatre Company. Whilst there, Live staged his plays, Bones and Noir. Both of these plays have displayed Straughan's talent for writing dark, twisted and witty stories.
His first ambition was to be a professional musician and he achieved this while playing bass guitar with Newcastle-based band "The Honest Johns". He spent four years touring and recording with the band through the late 80's and into the early 1990s before leaving to take up full-time education at Newcastle University. While Peter was a student he was also a member of the band Cactusman. Peter wrote the song 'Killer' in his distinctive dark style. The song appeared on the CD album 'North of London', a collection of music by North East bands released through Newcastle Arts.
Straughan co-wrote the 2006 feature film, Mrs Ratcliffe's Revolution and adapted Toby Young's memoir How to Lose Friends & Alienate People. He is the writer of the 2009 film, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and co-writer of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, a screenplay he wrote in collaboration with his late wife Bridget O'Connor. O'Connor died of cancer, aged 49, in 2010, before the film was released. They were awarded a BAFTA for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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Philippa Boyens
Philippa Boyens, MNZM, is a New Zealand screenwriter who co-wrote the screenplay for Peter Jackson's film series The Lord of the Rings with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, for which the trio won an Oscar at the 76th Academy Awards in 2004. Boyens worked with the same collaborators on the screenplay for Jackson's version of King Kong. Following that movie's completion, the trio once again worked together on The Lovely Bones, Jackson's film adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel of the same name, which was released in 2009. She is also collaborating with Jackson, Walsh and Guillermo del Toro on The Hobbit films which are scheduled for release in 2012 and 2013. Prior to turning to screenwriting with The Lord of the Rings, Boyens was a playwright.
Boyens was a part-time student at the University of Auckland, graduating with a BA in English and History in 1994. She received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the university in 2006.
She has three children, daughter Phoebe Gittins, and sons Calum Gittins (both with actor Paul Gittins) and Isaac Miller. Calum starred as Haleth in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers.
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Randy Newman
Randall Stuart "Randy" Newman (born November 28, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter,arranger, composer, and pianist who is known for his mordant (and often satirical) pop songs and for film scores.
Newman often writes lyrics from the perspective of a character far removed from his own experiences, sometimes using the point of view of an unreliable narrator. For example, the 1972 song "Sail Away" is written as a slave trader's sales pitch to attract slaves, while the narrator of "Political Science" is a U.S. nationalist who complains of worldwide ingratitude toward America and proposes a brutally ironic final solution. One of his biggest hits, "Short People" was written from the perspective of "a lunatic" who hates short people. Since the 1980s, Newman has worked mostly as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, Awakenings, The Natural, Leatherheads, James and the Giant Peach, Meet the Parents, Cold Turkey, Seabiscuit and The Princess and the Frog. He has scored six Disney-Pixar films: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Cars and most recently Toy Story 3.
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Ronald Harwood
Sir Ronald Harwood CBE (born 9 November 1934) is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is most noted for his plays for the British stage as well as the screenplays for The Dresser (for which he was nominated for an Oscar) and The Pianist, for which he won the 2003 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007).
Harwood was born Ronald Horwitz in Cape Town, South Africa, the son of Isobel (née Pepper) and Isaac Horwitz. Harwood moved from Cape Town to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theatre. He changed his name from Horwitz after an English master told him it was too foreign and too Jewish for a stage actor. After training for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he joined the Shakespeare Company of Sir Donald Wolfit. From 1953 to 1958, Harwood was Sir Donald's personal dresser. He would later draw on this experience when he wrote the stage play, The Dresser, and the biography, Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His life and work in the Unfashionable Theatre. In 1959, after leaving the Wolfit company. he joined the 59 Theatre Company for a season at the Lyric Hammersmith.
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Ryan Bingham
Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an Americana singer-songwriter currently based in Los Angeles, California.
After garnering critical acclaim for his first two studio releases on Lost Highway Records, 2007's Mescalito and 2009's Roadhouse Sun, Ryan Bingham went on to collaborate with Grammy-winning producer T Bone Burnett on the soundtrack for the 2009 acclaimed film Crazy Heart, including notably co-penning & performing the film’s award-winning theme song "The Weary Kind". The title track earned Bingham an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics' Choice Award for “Best Song” in 2010, as well as a Grammy Award for "Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media" in 2011. As a result of his monumental year, the Americana Music Association honored Bingham with the organization's top award in 2010: “Artist of the Year”.
Ryan Bingham joined back up with his band The Dead Horses to release their third studio album Junky Star on August 31, 2010. The album debuted in the Top 20 on the Billboard 200 Chart & in the Top 10 on the Billboard Rock Album Chart, making Junky Star Bingham’s highest charting & most successful release to date.
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Scott Frank
Scott Frank (born March 10, 1960) is an American screenwriter & director.
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Sheldon Turner
Sheldon Turner is a screenwriter and producer. His produced credits as a screenwriter include The Longest Yard (2005), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning (2006), Up in the Air (2009) and X-Men: First Class (2011).
Turner was featured in The Dialogue interview series. In this 90-minute interview with producer Mike DeLuca, Turner charts his detour from law school to screenwriting.
Up in the Air's script won:
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Simon Beaufoy
Simon Beaufoy (born 1967) is a British screenwriter. Born in Keighley, he was educated at Malsis School in Cross Hills, Ermysted's Grammar School and Sedbergh School, he read English at St Peter's College, Oxford and graduated from The Arts Institute at Bournemouth. In 1997 he earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for 'The Full Monty.' He went on to win the 2009 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Slumdog Millionaire as well as winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA award.
Beaufoy has recently completed adaptations of The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall and Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday.
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Stephen Gaghan
Stephen Gaghan (born May 6, 1965) is an American screenwriter and director. He is noted for writing the screenplay for Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic, based on a Channel 4 series, for which he won the Academy Award, as well as Syriana which he wrote and directed.
Born in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of the former Elizabeth Jane Whorton and her first husband, Stephen Gaghan (d. 1980), and a stepson of Tom Haag, Gaghan attended Kentucky Country Day School, a college preparatory school in Louisville. He was an All-State soccer player where he held the assist record at the school for nearly three decades. He is a grandson of Jerry Gaghan, a newspaper columnist and drama critic for Variety and the Philadelphia Daily News, whose career inspired Gaghan's own professional pursuits. As he wrote in a 2001 article in Newsweek, "I also wanted to be a writer, like my grandfather, who carried a card in his wallet that read, "If you find me, call my son [my father] at this number..."
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Stephen Sinclair
Stephen Sinclair is a New Zealand film and television writer and emerging director.
As a screenwriter, Sinclair has worked with director Peter Jackson on Meet the Feebles, Braindead and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. He has directed several short films, including Home Video and Ride, which was selected for the Montreal Film Festival in 2004.[citation needed] He has just made his feature film directorial debut, with the drama-comedy Russian Snark, which was written for Stephen Papps and Elena Stejko.
He is a son of poet and noted historian Sir Keith Sinclair and brother of the actor Harry Sinclair.
Sinclair has just finished making his film Russian Snark and is now concentrating on developing new ideas for his next project with producer Liz DiFiore.[citation needed]
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Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (born December 18, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as archetypes of modern Hollywood blockbuster filmmaking. In later years, his films began addressing such issues as the Holocaust, slavery, war and terrorism. He is considered one of the most popular and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. He is also one of the co-founders of DreamWorks movie studio.
Spielberg won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's List (1993) and Saving Private Ryan (1998). Three of Spielberg's films—Jaws (1975), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982), and Jurassic Park (1993)—achieved box office records, each becoming the highest-grossing film made at the time. To date, the unadjusted gross of all Spielberg-directed films exceeds $8.5 billion worldwide. Forbes puts Spielberg's wealth at $3.0 billion.
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Ted Elliott
Ted Elliott (born July 4, 1961) is an American screenwriter. Along with his writing partner Terry Rossio, Elliott has written some of the most successful American films of the past 15 years, including Aladdin, Shrek and the Pirates of the Caribbean series. In 2004, he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Writers Guild of America; his term on the board ended in 2006. Along with fellow former board member Craig Mazin, Elliott runs The Artful Writer, a website aimed at professional screenwriters. He is also a co-founder with Terry Rossio of Wordplay a.k.a. Wordplayer.com, one of the premier screenwriting sites on the Internet.
In 2005, Elliott ran for president of the Writers Guild of America, west, but lost to animation writer and historical figurine maker Patric Verrone. Verrone received 1301 votes; Elliott received 591.
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Ted Tally
Ted Tally (born April 9, 1952) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Born William Theodore Tally in North Carolina, Tally was educated at Yale College and the Yale School of Drama, and has also taught at each of them. His most notable credit is the screenplay for The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Screenplay as well as the Writers Guild of America Award, Chicago Film Critics Award and an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. Other scripts include White Palace, Before and After, Outbreak, and All the Pretty Horses.
After declining to write the screenplay for Hannibal, Tally returned to the Hannibal Lecter franchise to write Red Dragon. When asked by Inside Film Online magazine why he opted not to write the screenplay for Hannibal, he responded, "For a lot of reasons. I didn't like the book. The director, Jonathan Demme, and I read it and were horrified. We didn't see how we could make a movie from it that we could be proud of and not feel sleazy about it, without making it a totally different story, which we could have done on our own. It was upsetting because we had a friendship with Tom Harris and felt we owed him a lot. But he was defensive and didn't want anything changed and it was frustrating because it would have been the biggest payday for all of us, putting us up there in Spielberg territory."
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Terri Tatchell
Terri Tatchell is a Canadian screenwriter, best known for the co-writing the screenplay of District 9 and was nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 82nd Academy Awards.
Tatchell graduated in 2001 from the Vancouver Film School's Writing for Film and Television program. She began her screenwriting career in 2006 with the IDEALOGUE short action film Adicolor Yellow under the direction of her husband Neill Blomkamp. In 2008, Tatchell wrote, with Blomkamp, the screenplay of the science-fiction film District 9, which was released in 2009. Her work on District 9 has since garnered a number of awards nominations, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Saturn Awards. She won the 2009 Bradbury Award from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America for her work on the screenplay.
Married to Neill Blomkamp. She has one daughter, Cassidy, from a previous marriage.
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Terry Rossio
Terry Rossio (born July 2, 1960) is an American screenwriter.
Rossio was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. After graduating from Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, California, he went on to study at California State University, Fullerton where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications, with an emphasis in radio, television and film. He is the founder of Wordplay a.k.a. Wordplayer.com, one of the premier screenwriting sites on the Internet.
Along with his writing partner Ted Elliott, Rossio has written some of the most successful American films of the past 15 years, including Aladdin, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl and Shrek. He is the second most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of domestic box office receipts with totals at around $2.5 billion.
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The Edge
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.
The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.
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Wesley Strick
Wesley Strick (born February 11, 1954) is an American screenwriter who has written such films as the comic-horror hit Arachnophobia, the Martin Scorsese remake of Cape Fear and the videogame adaptation Doom.
Strick was born in New York City, New York, the son of Racelle (née Kessler) and Louis Strick. He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley, where he studied creative writing with the poet Thom Gunn. Prior to his Hollywood career, he worked as a rock journalist in New York City, contributing features and reviews to Circus, Creem and Rolling Stone.
He was one of many writers to contribute to the famously unproduced Superman Lives. As a "script doctor" he has done production polishes on such films as Batman Returns, Face/Off and Mission: Impossible II. Strick's screenplay for True Believer was nominated for a 1990 Edgar Award for Best Mystery Motion Picture. Strick won a 1994 Saturn Award (with co-writer Jim Harrison) for his screenplay for the Mike Nichols film Wolf.
His first novel, Out There in the Dark, was published by St. Martin's Press in February 2006. His second novel, Whirlybird, is available as a Kindle book on Amazon.com.
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William Monahan
William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was The Departed, a film that earned him a WGA award and an Academy award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Monahan attended the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he studied Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. He moved to New York City and contributed to the alternative weekly newspaper New York Press and the magazines Talk, Maxim, and Spy. In 1997 Monahan won a Pushcart Prize for his short story "A Relation of Various Accidents Observable in Some Animals Included in Vacuo". Monahan was an editor at Spy during the magazine's final years, where he would come in at the close of the monthly issue to rewrite articles and improve jokes.
Monahan wrote a novel titled Light House: A Trifle, and Warner Bros. optioned the film rights. In 1999 Talk magazine debuted, and Monahan contributed a travelogue on Gloucester, Massachusetts, to the first issue. In 2000 Monahan's first novel, Light House: A Trifle, was finally published, and it garnered critical acclaim; The New York Times proclaimed, "Monahan's cocksure prose gallops along" and BookPage Fiction called Monahan "a worthy successor to Kingsley Amis." In the second half of 2001 Monahan wrote a fictional column at the New York Press under the pseudonym of Claude La Badarian, which ran for 13 weeks.
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Yuri Rasovsky
Yuri Rasovsky (July 29, 1944 – January 18, 2012) was an award-winning writer and producer working in the field of radio drama in the United States.
He founded and operated The National Radio Theater of Chicago from 1973 to 1986 and later formed the Hollywood Theater of the Ear (since 1993). In the 1990s, he forsook radio for audiobooks. Many of his radio plays have been published as commercial recordings or as Internet downloads. His new plays are being released by Blackstone Audio. He died in 2012 of esophageal cancer.
Rasovsky wrote, directed, or produced more than 150 audio plays. Notable examples include:
He was the author of The Well-tempered Audio Dramatist (National Audio Theatre Festivals, 2006) and, with Carol Madden Adorjan, co-author of WKID: Easy Radio Plays for Children (Albert Whitman & Co., 1987).
Over the past three-plus decades, Rasovsky's audio work has won:
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Walsh, Fran Filmography
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014)
- The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2014)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
- West of Memphis (2012)
- The Lovely Bones (2009)
- The Lovely Bones (2009)
- Crossing the Line (2008)
- King Kong (2005)
- King Kong (2005)
- The 76th Annual Academy Awards (2004)
- The 61st Annual Golden Globe Awards (2004)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
- The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' (2002)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
- The Price of Milk (2000)
- Heaven (1998)
- Topless Women Talk About Their Lives (1997)
- Jack Brown Genius (1996)
- The Frighteners (1996)
- The Frighteners (1996)
- Forgotten Silver (1995)
- Forgotten Silver (1995)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Braindead (1992)
- Braindead (1992)
- Meet the Feebles (1989)
- Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1986)
- Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1986)
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Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh - Oscar Win & Acceptance Speech
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
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Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
Guillermo Del Toro On Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens.
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- Duration: 2:04
- Updated: 21 Dec 2012
Guillermo Del Toro talks about script writing The Hobbit with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens at Weta workshop's Weta Cave. Del Toro has since left the production, and there could be changes. yet he still retains a writing credit for the script. see imdb.com Year. 2010
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Guillermo Del Toro talks about script writing The Hobbit with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens at Weta workshop's Weta Cave. Del Toro has since left the production, and there could be changes. yet he still retains a writing credit for the script. see imdb.com Year. 2010
- published: 28 Jun 2011
- views: 2522
- author: linuxelf1
ROTK Peter Jackson On Oscar Nominations #2
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- Duration: 3:15
- Updated: 28 Jul 2011
An Interview with Peter Jackson talks about his Oscar nominations for lotr, ROTK Golden Globes (tripping nearly dropping his glasses on his way up the stage) he also about Whale Rider's (another NZ Film) Keisha Castle-Hughes Oscar Nom. And finally talking about Fran Walsh the writing the lyrics for Annie Lennox - Into The West. Year. 2003-2004.
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An Interview with Peter Jackson talks about his Oscar nominations for lotr, ROTK Golden Globes (tripping nearly dropping his glasses on his way up the stage) he also about Whale Rider's (another NZ Film) Keisha Castle-Hughes Oscar Nom. And finally talking about Fran Walsh the writing the lyrics for Annie Lennox - Into The West. Year. 2003-2004.
- published: 19 Jun 2010
- views: 754
- author: linuxelf1
Into the West, by Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore; from The Return of the King soundtrack
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- Duration: 5:28
- Updated: 14 Sep 2012
ABC transcription/arrangement by Briffo of Howard Shore's Evenstar from The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, played in The Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) by the Eriador Music Society led by Keptwise and Makalaure opposite the Prancing Pony in Bree on 9/18/2009 as part of the Gathering of Laurelin's Chronicles of Arda event.
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ABC transcription/arrangement by Briffo of Howard Shore's Evenstar from The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack, played in The Lord of the Rings Online (LotRO) by the Eriador Music Society led by Keptwise and Makalaure opposite the Prancing Pony in Bree on 9/18/2009 as part of the Gathering of Laurelin's Chronicles of Arda event.
- published: 25 Sep 2009
- views: 13301
- author: balithag
Playing Fife Music - Fran Walsh & Haward Shore - In Dreams in F-Ab-G.mp4
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- Duration: 1:26
- Updated: 02 Dec 2012
In Dreams from The Lord of The Rings by Fran Walsh and Haward Shore
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In Dreams from The Lord of The Rings by Fran Walsh and Haward Shore
- published: 11 Apr 2011
- views: 1270
- author: charles wong
Gollum's Song - music Howard Shore, lyrics Fran Walsh - Solly's 08-09-10.mpg
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 15 Dec 2012
Alex The Red Parez aka El Rojo plays "Gollum's Song" music by Howard Shore lyrics by Fran Walsh from the end credits of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers at Solly's in Washington DC
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Alex The Red Parez aka El Rojo plays "Gollum's Song" music by Howard Shore lyrics by Fran Walsh from the end credits of The Lord of The Rings: The Two Towers at Solly's in Washington DC
- published: 14 Aug 2010
- views: 1452
- author: fortecomposealex
The Lovely Bones New trailer
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- Duration: 1:01
- Updated: 20 Sep 2012
tinyurl.com Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay) & Philippa Boyens (screenplay) Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci Release Date: 15 January 2010 (USA) Genre: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller Plot: The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
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tinyurl.com Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh (screenplay) & Philippa Boyens (screenplay) Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci Release Date: 15 January 2010 (USA) Genre: Crime | Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller Plot: The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.
- published: 02 Dec 2009
- views: 58201
- author: strepres
In Dreams duet - Lord of the Rings - "The Breaking of the Fellowship" - Fran Walsh and Howard Shore
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- Duration: 1:52
- Updated: 19 Jun 2012
In Dreams, from The Lord of the Rings "The Breaking of the Fellowship". Words and music by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore
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In Dreams, from The Lord of the Rings "The Breaking of the Fellowship". Words and music by Fran Walsh and Howard Shore
- published: 28 Dec 2011
- views: 591
- author: catherinemusicstudio
Michael Performs "Into The West" Of Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh And Howard Shore
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- Duration: 4:31
- Updated: 19 May 2012
Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore "Into The West"
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Annie Lennox, Fran Walsh, Howard Shore "Into The West"
- published: 03 Apr 2010
- views: 620
- author: MichaelLomov
Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, sung by Emiliana Torrini. Lyrics by Fran Walsh, music by Howard Shore. Lyrics: Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame... And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame... And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home
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Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, sung by Emiliana Torrini. Lyrics by Fran Walsh, music by Howard Shore. Lyrics: Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame... And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame... And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home
- published: 03 Mar 2008
- views: 1136315
- author: PetroleumHead
Fran Walsh & Howard Shore - In Dreams - Lord of the Rings - Piano Solo - Revisited - HD
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- Duration: 2:22
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
Pendant les Fêtes de Noël, chaque année, je me repasse la Trilogie du Seigneur des Anneaux. J'adore les acteurs, les images, les costumes, les dialogues toujours polis et bien entendu la superbe musique composée par Howard Shore avec les paroles de Fran Walsh. Voici un thèmes musicaux du film que je préfère. Cette fois côté image, j'ai innové en filmant de cinq angles différents. Pour le son, j'ai utilisé le VSTi de Synthogy, le Grand Piano Yamaha C7 avec en nappe de fond les "warm pads". J'espère que cette vidéo vous plaira, n'hésitez pas à laisser un commentaire et de cliquer "j'aime" si vous aimez... During the Christmas holidays, I'm watching every year the trilogy of "the Lord of the Rings". I like actors, pictures, costumes, dialogues always polite and the beautiful music composed by Howard Shore with lyrics by Fran Walsh. Here is one of the themes I like. This time for the movie, I innovated by filming with five several angles. For the sound, I used the Synthogy VSTi, the Yamaha C7 Grand Piano with "warm pads" background. I hope you will enjoy this video, please leave a comment and rate if you liked...
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Pendant les Fêtes de Noël, chaque année, je me repasse la Trilogie du Seigneur des Anneaux. J'adore les acteurs, les images, les costumes, les dialogues toujours polis et bien entendu la superbe musique composée par Howard Shore avec les paroles de Fran Walsh. Voici un thèmes musicaux du film que je préfère. Cette fois côté image, j'ai innové en filmant de cinq angles différents. Pour le son, j'ai utilisé le VSTi de Synthogy, le Grand Piano Yamaha C7 avec en nappe de fond les "warm pads". J'espère que cette vidéo vous plaira, n'hésitez pas à laisser un commentaire et de cliquer "j'aime" si vous aimez... During the Christmas holidays, I'm watching every year the trilogy of "the Lord of the Rings". I like actors, pictures, costumes, dialogues always polite and the beautiful music composed by Howard Shore with lyrics by Fran Walsh. Here is one of the themes I like. This time for the movie, I innovated by filming with five several angles. For the sound, I used the Synthogy VSTi, the Yamaha C7 Grand Piano with "warm pads" background. I hope you will enjoy this video, please leave a comment and rate if you liked...
- published: 08 Dec 2012
- views: 286
- author: Alain68840
EXCLUSIVE - Misty Mountains song HD from The Hobbit
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- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
Exclusive clip from Warner Bros and TheOneRing.net Visit thehobbit.com Find your global HFR 3D theatre - http Get The Hobbit Special Edition Soundtrack! iTunes: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to Hobbit OST iTunes: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY In High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D) in select theaters, other 2D and 3D formats, and IMAX® Friday, December 14 (New Line Cinema/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro Based on The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson Executive Producers: Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins, Carolyn Blackwood Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Manu Bennett, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Barry Humphries, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, Graham McTavish, James Nesbitt, Dean O'Gorman, Conan Stevens, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner
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Exclusive clip from Warner Bros and TheOneRing.net Visit thehobbit.com Find your global HFR 3D theatre - http Get The Hobbit Special Edition Soundtrack! iTunes: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to Hobbit OST iTunes: bit.ly Amazon: amzn.to THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY In High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D) in select theaters, other 2D and 3D formats, and IMAX® Friday, December 14 (New Line Cinema/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures) Director: Peter Jackson Writers: Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro Based on The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien Producers: Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson Executive Producers: Alan Horn, Toby Emmerich, Ken Kamins, Carolyn Blackwood Cast: Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Andy Serkis, Richard Armitage, Manu Bennett, Jed Brophy, Adam Brown, John Callen, Mark Hadlow, Peter Hambleton, Barry Humphries, Stephen Hunter, William Kircher, Sylvester McCoy, Bret McKenzie, Graham McTavish, James Nesbitt, Dean O'Gorman, Conan Stevens, Ken Stott, Aidan Turner
- published: 11 Dec 2012
- views: 778219
- author: The1neRing
![The Lovely Bones - Trailer [HD]](http://web.archive.org./web/20121228020816im_/http://i.ytimg.com/vi/jvWXV-c2hWo/default.jpg "The Lovely Bones - Trailer [HD]")
The Lovely Bones - Trailer [HD]
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- Duration: 2:30
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan. Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Release: December 11, 2009 Director: Peter Jackson Writer: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa BoyensMark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
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Based on the critically acclaimed best-selling novel by Alice Sebold, and directed by Oscar winner Peter Jackson from a screenplay by Jackson & Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens, The Lovely Bones centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Oscar nominee Mark Wahlberg and Oscar winners Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon star along with Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli and Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan. Studio: DreamWorks Pictures Release: December 11, 2009 Director: Peter Jackson Writer: Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa BoyensMark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Saoirse Ronan Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
- published: 10 Dec 2009
- views: 406713
- author: TheMovieChanneI
Annie Lennox Into The West
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- Duration: 4:27
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Into The West written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox From the album, The Annie Lennox Collection and The Lord Of The Rings:Return Of The King Soundtrack Label: Reprise / Wea /WMG 2003 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Released November 2003 The music and images used in this video, remain the sole property of the respectful owners. I own nothing here. No copyright infringement intended. Strictly for entertainment purposes only.
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Into The West written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox From the album, The Annie Lennox Collection and The Lord Of The Rings:Return Of The King Soundtrack Label: Reprise / Wea /WMG 2003 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. Released November 2003 The music and images used in this video, remain the sole property of the respectful owners. I own nothing here. No copyright infringement intended. Strictly for entertainment purposes only.
- published: 15 Apr 2012
- views: 18555
- author: alwaysblistening
The Lovely Bones (1/9) Movie CLIP - A Thing of Beauty (2009) HD
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- Duration: 2:08
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) spends time with his daughter Susie (Saoirse Ronan) teaching her how to make a ship in a bottle. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) spends time with his daughter Susie (Saoirse Ronan) teaching her how to make a ship in a bottle. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the ...
- published: 19 May 2012
- views: 21153
- author: movieclips
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:" Academy Conversations
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- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" discussion with producer/co-writer/director Peter Jackson, producer/co-writer Fran Walsh, and co-producer/co-writer Philippa Boyens on December 2, 2012 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
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"The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" discussion with producer/co-writer/director Peter Jackson, producer/co-writer Fran Walsh, and co-producer/co-writer Philippa Boyens on December 2, 2012 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater.
- published: 10 Dec 2012
- views: 2173
- author: Oscars
LOTR: The Fellowship of the Ring - Soundtrack Compilation
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- Duration: 14:58
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh. Featuring Enya. No copyright infringement intended. The pieces used in the compilation are as follows: The Prophecy 00:00-00:51 Concerning Hobbits 00:52-02:43 A Journey in the Dark 02:44-03:27 Lothlorien 03:28-04:13 A Knife in the Dark 04:14-04:48 The Black Rider 04:49-06:08 Amon Hen 06:09-07:13 The Council of Elrond 07:14-08:16 The Breaking of the Fellowship 08:17-13:19 May It Be 13:20-14:58
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The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring soundtrack by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh. Featuring Enya. No copyright infringement intended. The pieces used in the compilation are as follows: The Prophecy 00:00-00:51 Concerning Hobbits 00:52-02:43 A Journey in the Dark 02:44-03:27 Lothlorien 03:28-04:13 A Knife in the Dark 04:14-04:48 The Black Rider 04:49-06:08 Amon Hen 06:09-07:13 The Council of Elrond 07:14-08:16 The Breaking of the Fellowship 08:17-13:19 May It Be 13:20-14:58
- published: 05 Dec 2010
- views: 178074
- author: spaciousgalaxy
The Lovely Bones (2/9) Movie CLIP - You Are Beautiful, Susie Salmon (2009) HD
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- Duration: 1:56
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Ray (Reece Ritchie) gets the courage to ask Susie (Saoirse Ronan) out on a date. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Thomas McCarthy, Reece Ritchie, Carolyn Dando, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the lovely ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Ray (Reece Ritchie) gets the courage to ask Susie (Saoirse Ronan) out on a date. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Thomas McCarthy, Reece Ritchie, Carolyn Dando, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the lovely ...
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The Lovely Bones (3/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Not Gonna Hurt You, Susie (2009) HD
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci) lures Susie (Saoirse Ronan) into his underground hideaway. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Stanley Tucci, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the lovely bones clip","the lovely bones ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci) lures Susie (Saoirse Ronan) into his underground hideaway. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Stanley Tucci, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the lovely bones clip","the lovely bones ...
- published: 19 May 2012
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The Lovely Bones (4/9) Movie CLIP - Last Wednesday (2009) HD
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Detective Len Fenerman (Michael Imperioli) questions Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci) about the recent murder. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Michael Imperioli, Stanley Tucci, Richard Whiteside Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Detective Len Fenerman (Michael Imperioli) questions Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci) about the recent murder. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Michael Imperioli, Stanley Tucci, Richard Whiteside Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones ...
- published: 19 May 2012
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The Lovely Bones (5/9) Movie CLIP - She's Gone (2009) HD
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Susie (Saoirse Ronan) realizes that she's stuck in a place that lies between heaven and earth. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Reece Ritchie, Carolyn Dando, Saoirse Ronan, Nikki SooHoo Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Susie (Saoirse Ronan) realizes that she's stuck in a place that lies between heaven and earth. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Reece Ritchie, Carolyn Dando, Saoirse Ronan, Nikki SooHoo Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big screen. "the lovely bones","the ...
- published: 19 May 2012
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The Lovely Bones (6/9) Movie CLIP - Jack Realizes the Truth (2009) HD
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) figures out that his neighbor George Harvey (Stanley Tucci) was responsible for Susie's (Saoirse Ronan) murder. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big ...
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The Lovely Bones Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Jack Salmon (Mark Wahlberg) figures out that his neighbor George Harvey (Stanley Tucci) was responsible for Susie's (Saoirse Ronan) murder. TM & © Paramount (2012) Cast: Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Philippa Boyens, Marc Ashton, Anne Bruning, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Ken Kamins, Tessa Ross, Steven Spielberg, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, Alice Sebold, Fran Walsh Film Description: Fourteen-year-old Susie Salmon (Saoirse Ronan) is just experiencing the pangs of first love when she's viciously murdered by her neighbor Mr. Harvey (Stanley Tucci), a predatory wolf in JC Penney clothing. As her family slowly begins drifting apart while struggling to make sense of their loss, Susie bravely attempts to find her footing in the hereafter. Meanwhile, down on earth, Mr. Harvey is feeling confident that he's covered his tracks well enough to get away with the crime, and begins honing in on his next victim -- Susie's younger sister, Lindsey (Rose McIver), who's beginning to suspect that he's not the harmless suburbanite he portrays himself to be. Director Peter Jackson reteams with King Kong and Lord of the Rings trilogy co-screenwriters Philippa Boyens and Fran Walsh to adapt Alice Sebold's bestselling novel for the big ...
- published: 19 May 2012
- views: 22147
- author: movieclips
West of Memphis Trailer
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- Duration: 4:18
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
West of Memphis Trailer produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh and directed by Amy Berg. An extended trailer of this documentary film examinatinating a failure of justice in Arkansashas. A police investigation into the 1993 murders of three 8 years old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas. They were wrongly convicted for their murder and unjustly kept in prison for 18 years ! West of Memphis Trailer of the documentary movie, produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, starring Dami.
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West of Memphis Trailer produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh and directed by Amy Berg. An extended trailer of this documentary film examinatinating a failure of justice in Arkansashas. A police investigation into the 1993 murders of three 8 years old boys in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas. They were wrongly convicted for their murder and unjustly kept in prison for 18 years ! West of Memphis Trailer of the documentary movie, produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, starring Dami.
- published: 13 Jan 2012
- views: 14980
- author: DocumentariesNews
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Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh - Oscar Win & Acceptance Speech
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- Duration: 3:32
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
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Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 6458
- author: professorenol
Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song
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- Duration: 4:00
- Updated: 26 Dec 2012
Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, sung by Emiliana Torrini. Lyrics by Fran Walsh, music by Howard Shore. Lyrics: Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame... And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame... And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home
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Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, sung by Emiliana Torrini. Lyrics by Fran Walsh, music by Howard Shore. Lyrics: Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame... And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame... And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home
- published: 03 Mar 2008
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Annie Lennox - Into The West (live at the 2004 Oscars)
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Annie Lennox performs Into The West at the 2004 Oscars. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
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Annie Lennox performs Into The West at the 2004 Oscars. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 24482
- author: professorenol
Lord of the rings - The Breaking of the Fellowship - Piano
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- Duration: 2:02
- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
"The Breaking of the Fellowship" by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, for the motion picture " Lord of the Rings". Performed on the piano by Joshua Eversham. Join me on facebook www.facebook.com or twitter twitter.com
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"The Breaking of the Fellowship" by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, for the motion picture " Lord of the Rings". Performed on the piano by Joshua Eversham. Join me on facebook www.facebook.com or twitter twitter.com
- published: 15 Jul 2010
- views: 7991
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Annie Lennox - The Making Of Into The West
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- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 28 Nov 2012
Behind the scenes look at the making of the Oscar winning song Into The West written by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore and Fran Walsh. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
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Behind the scenes look at the making of the Oscar winning song Into The West written by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore and Fran Walsh. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 575
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Into the West - Relay for Life @ George Mason High School 2012
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- Updated: 02 Jul 2012
This was a live tribute performance sung by a 19 yr old cancer surviver accompanied by his awesome younger brother. The speakers shared from the heart how the power of prayer and the love of the around them carried them to their healing. Praise Jesus! This well known song shares the hope of salvation beyond this life. "Into the West" is an Oscar winning song, written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox, and performed by Lennox.[1] The song plays during the closing credits of the film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[1]
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This was a live tribute performance sung by a 19 yr old cancer surviver accompanied by his awesome younger brother. The speakers shared from the heart how the power of prayer and the love of the around them carried them to their healing. Praise Jesus! This well known song shares the hope of salvation beyond this life. "Into the West" is an Oscar winning song, written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox, and performed by Lennox.[1] The song plays during the closing credits of the film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[1]
- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 148
- author: gmhsfanofthearts
The Hobbit's Director Peter Jackson Wins For Best Director - Golden Globes 2004
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- Duration: 2:54
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Dustin Hoffman presents the award for Best Director to Peter Jackson for "Lord of the Rings." Jackson thanks the Hollywood Foriegn Press, Michael Lynne, New Line Cinema, Mark Ordesky Barrie Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Nelson, the cast, the crew and his fellow nominees. License Golden Globes Clips Here: www.dickclarklicensing.com
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Dustin Hoffman presents the award for Best Director to Peter Jackson for "Lord of the Rings." Jackson thanks the Hollywood Foriegn Press, Michael Lynne, New Line Cinema, Mark Ordesky Barrie Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Nelson, the cast, the crew and his fellow nominees. License Golden Globes Clips Here: www.dickclarklicensing.com
- published: 12 Jan 2011
- views: 7054
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (8/9) Movie CLIP - The Fall of Sauron (2003) HD
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- Updated: 25 Dec 2012
LOTR: The Return of the King Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The Fellowship watches as all evidence of Sauron is wiped from Middle Earth. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first came to possess the One Ring. In this flashback, actor Andy Serkis (who voiced Gollum and performed his movements onset prior to the final CGI effects) finally gets to appear onscreen, portraying Gollum's former self, Sméagol. This disturbing scene serves as a potent reminder that the Ring seeks to corrupt even the well-intentioned Frodo (Elijah Wood), who is increasingly struggling with the dark power of the Ring himself. Thus, the film returns to the present, following Frodo, Sam (Sean Astin), and ...
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LOTR: The Return of the King Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The Fellowship watches as all evidence of Sauron is wiped from Middle Earth. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first came to possess the One Ring. In this flashback, actor Andy Serkis (who voiced Gollum and performed his movements onset prior to the final CGI effects) finally gets to appear onscreen, portraying Gollum's former self, Sméagol. This disturbing scene serves as a potent reminder that the Ring seeks to corrupt even the well-intentioned Frodo (Elijah Wood), who is increasingly struggling with the dark power of the Ring himself. Thus, the film returns to the present, following Frodo, Sam (Sean Astin), and ...
- published: 27 May 2011
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An Encouraging Thought Scene - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Movie (2001) - HD
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LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Gandalf (Ian McKellen) counsels Frodo (Elijah Wood) not to despair the responsibility given to him as bearer of the ring. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh, Ellen Somers Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author JRR Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the "One Ring," a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark powers and enslave the world. Frodo is charged by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to return the ring to Mount Doom, the evil site where it was forged millennia ago and the only place where it can be destroyed. Accompanying Frodo is a fellowship of eight others: his Hobbit friends Sam (Sean Astin), Merry (Dominic Monaghan), and Pippin (Billy Boyd); plus Gandalf ...
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LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Gandalf (Ian McKellen) counsels Frodo (Elijah Wood) not to despair the responsibility given to him as bearer of the ring. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh, Ellen Somers Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author JRR Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the "One Ring," a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark powers and enslave the world. Frodo is charged by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to return the ring to Mount Doom, the evil site where it was forged millennia ago and the only place where it can be destroyed. Accompanying Frodo is a fellowship of eight others: his Hobbit friends Sam (Sean Astin), Merry (Dominic Monaghan), and Pippin (Billy Boyd); plus Gandalf ...
- published: 27 May 2011
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lords of the ring - tyros 3
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www.box.net for a MP3 version. En live. toujours.
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www.box.net for a MP3 version. En live. toujours.
- published: 31 Jan 2009
- views: 12172
- author: soundphase
The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey - World Premiere Red Carpet Event
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- Duration: 23:13
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
World Premiere Red Carpet event for 1st of the Hobbit Trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand --- 28th of November, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------- Featuring Video of: -Neil Finn's live performance of "Song of the Lonely Mountain" - Air New Zealand plane fly-over - Weta Digital VFX Supervisor: Joe Letteri interview - Sir Peter Jackson's speech - Sir Ian McKallen message - Hobbit cast ensemble on stage --------------------------------------------------------- All video was shot using HTC One X ---------------------------------------------------------
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World Premiere Red Carpet event for 1st of the Hobbit Trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand --- 28th of November, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------- Featuring Video of: -Neil Finn's live performance of "Song of the Lonely Mountain" - Air New Zealand plane fly-over - Weta Digital VFX Supervisor: Joe Letteri interview - Sir Peter Jackson's speech - Sir Ian McKallen message - Hobbit cast ensemble on stage --------------------------------------------------------- All video was shot using HTC One X ---------------------------------------------------------
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 305
- author: hariyoshi41
King Kong 360 3D: Return to Skull Island Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour
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- Duration: 6:51
- Updated: 24 Dec 2012
Encounter King Kong himself and watch as he battles several T-Rex! Filmed at the Premier on July 1st 2010 using two cameras.
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Encounter King Kong himself and watch as he battles several T-Rex! Filmed at the Premier on July 1st 2010 using two cameras.
- published: 02 Jul 2010
- views: 1031837
- author: sharpproductions
King Kong (7/10) Movie CLIP - Ice Skating in Central Park (2005) HD
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- Duration: 2:06
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp In the quiet before the storm, Kong and Ann (Naomi Watts) spend a private moment together skating on the frozen lake in central park. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS...
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King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp In the quiet before the storm, Kong and Ann (Naomi Watts) spend a private moment together skating on the frozen lake in central park. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 601924
- author: movieclips
King Kong (3/10) Movie CLIP - Kong Battles the T-Rexes (2005) HD
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- Duration: 3:27
- Updated: 28 Dec 2012
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Trying to protect Ann (Naomi Watts), Kong fights off a whole pack of T-Rexes. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp...
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King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Trying to protect Ann (Naomi Watts), Kong fights off a whole pack of T-Rexes. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 6543098
- author: movieclips
Into The West - Halcyon Chamber Choir
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- Duration: 4:18
- Updated: 29 Jul 2012
A small group from the Halcyon Chamber Choir sings "Into The West" at Halcyon - Live On The Air on March 27, 2011. Words and Music by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Artistic Director - Hart Godden
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A small group from the Halcyon Chamber Choir sings "Into The West" at Halcyon - Live On The Air on March 27, 2011. Words and Music by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Artistic Director - Hart Godden
- published: 12 Apr 2011
- views: 589
- author: SandraLeigh85
THE HOBBIT; Casts Its Spell Over NEW YORK; PREVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
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- Duration: 2:26
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937). The films are, by subtitle, An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The series acts as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series and will star Ian McKellen, reprising his role as Gandalf, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug.[2] Several other actors will reprise their roles from The Lord of the Rings, including Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, and Orlando Bloom. Also returning for the production are a significant part of the production crew: among others, co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, illustrators John Howe and Alan Lee, art director Dan Hennah, and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie. As with the original trilogy, props will generally be crafted by Weta Workshop and visual effects managed by Weta Digital. Additionally, composer Howard Shore, who wrote the score for The Lord of the Rings, has confirmed his involvement in the first two parts of the film project.[3] The most significant new involvement in the trilogy is the participation of Guillermo del Toro, originally chosen to direct the films, as co-writer. The first film in the series premiered at the Embassy Theatre ...
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The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937). The films are, by subtitle, An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The series acts as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series and will star Ian McKellen, reprising his role as Gandalf, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug.[2] Several other actors will reprise their roles from The Lord of the Rings, including Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, and Orlando Bloom. Also returning for the production are a significant part of the production crew: among others, co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, illustrators John Howe and Alan Lee, art director Dan Hennah, and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie. As with the original trilogy, props will generally be crafted by Weta Workshop and visual effects managed by Weta Digital. Additionally, composer Howard Shore, who wrote the score for The Lord of the Rings, has confirmed his involvement in the first two parts of the film project.[3] The most significant new involvement in the trilogy is the participation of Guillermo del Toro, originally chosen to direct the films, as co-writer. The first film in the series premiered at the Embassy Theatre ...
- published: 08 Dec 2012
- views: 379
- author: WorldConflictReport
King Kong (2/10) Movie CLIP - Dinosaur Stampede (2005) HD
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The crew gets caught between stampeding dinosaurs and hungry raptors. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Jamie Bell, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp...
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King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The crew gets caught between stampeding dinosaurs and hungry raptors. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Jamie Bell, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 2253929
- author: movieclips
Amy Berg, director of West of Memphis at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012
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- Duration: 3:26
- Updated: 13 Sep 2012
Amy Berg sat down with Red Carpet Diary to talk about her new film West of Memphis. The film is about the infamous case of the "West Memphis 3" — three teenagers who were imprisoned for a heinous crime, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence — has galvanized support from both the grassroots and such high-profile advocates as Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. A live discussion follows the screening of this new documentary on the case and the movement it inspired.Distributed by OneLoad.com
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Amy Berg sat down with Red Carpet Diary to talk about her new film West of Memphis. The film is about the infamous case of the "West Memphis 3" — three teenagers who were imprisoned for a heinous crime, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence — has galvanized support from both the grassroots and such high-profile advocates as Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. A live discussion follows the screening of this new documentary on the case and the movement it inspired.Distributed by OneLoad.com
- published: 10 Sep 2012
- views: 60
- author: redcarpetdiary
'Into The West' - cover by Maddi
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- Duration: 4:24
- Updated: 18 Dec 2012
Dedicated to all those who have given their lives for our freedom, for those who continue in that fight, and the loved ones who wait for their return. Lest we forget. ----------------------------------------------------- This song is from the LOTR soundtrack, compose by Howard Shore & Fran Walsh, sang by Annie Lennox. I sang this at a recent school concert we did for an International Evening... I hope you like it. I was quite disappointed with it to be honest - I missed a lot of notes, and I was too nervous to put all the emotion into it... but here it is.
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Dedicated to all those who have given their lives for our freedom, for those who continue in that fight, and the loved ones who wait for their return. Lest we forget. ----------------------------------------------------- This song is from the LOTR soundtrack, compose by Howard Shore & Fran Walsh, sang by Annie Lennox. I sang this at a recent school concert we did for an International Evening... I hope you like it. I was quite disappointed with it to be honest - I missed a lot of notes, and I was too nervous to put all the emotion into it... but here it is.
- published: 12 Nov 2012
- views: 90
- author: FireflyFanatic3
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring MOVIE Teaser (Lord of the Rings Trilogy) - HD
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- Duration: 2:16
- Updated: 27 Dec 2012
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Trailer - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp This online promotional teaser for the trilogy was first released on April 27th, 2000 and set a new record for registering 1.7 million hits in the first 24 hours of its release. It uses selections from the soundtracks for Braveheart and The Shawshank Redemption. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Harry Sinclair, David Weatherley, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh, Ellen Somers Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author JRR Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the "One Ring," a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark ...
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LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Trailer - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp This online promotional teaser for the trilogy was first released on April 27th, 2000 and set a new record for registering 1.7 million hits in the first 24 hours of its release. It uses selections from the soundtracks for Braveheart and The Shawshank Redemption. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian Holm, Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Andy Serkis, Harry Sinclair, David Weatherley, Hugo Weaving, Elijah Wood, Cate Blanchett, Liv Tyler Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh, Ellen Somers Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author JRR Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the "One Ring," a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark ...
- published: 02 Sep 2011
- views: 20480
- author: movieclips
Sadie Jayne - Long Ways To Go Yet (Gollum's Song)
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- Duration: 3:48
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
With the help of amazing key player Semi Park I just recorded a vocal/piano cover of Howard Shore and Fran Walsh's "Long Ways To Go Yet (Gollum's Song)" as heard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where it's sung by the amazing Emilíana Torrini. I guess I took Andy Serkis's advice to heart for this one and went full Gollum-style with the facial expressions. So, yeah. Ever since my uncle took me to see The Fellowship of the Ring when I was eleven, I've been in love with the works of Tolkien. Since then I've read and re-read most of his books and I've seen Peter Jackson's movies a gazillion times. This hauntingly beautiful song has been on my to-do list for ages. As I didn't have a good place to put my camera I actually piled up four of Tolkien's books on a shelf and tilted the camera using the chain of my Evenstar replica. Yes, I am that nerdy. It's just a first draft - probably not final. But I was really excited about the first results and wanted to share this with you all. I hope you like it! xxxxS
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With the help of amazing key player Semi Park I just recorded a vocal/piano cover of Howard Shore and Fran Walsh's "Long Ways To Go Yet (Gollum's Song)" as heard in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers where it's sung by the amazing Emilíana Torrini. I guess I took Andy Serkis's advice to heart for this one and went full Gollum-style with the facial expressions. So, yeah. Ever since my uncle took me to see The Fellowship of the Ring when I was eleven, I've been in love with the works of Tolkien. Since then I've read and re-read most of his books and I've seen Peter Jackson's movies a gazillion times. This hauntingly beautiful song has been on my to-do list for ages. As I didn't have a good place to put my camera I actually piled up four of Tolkien's books on a shelf and tilted the camera using the chain of my Evenstar replica. Yes, I am that nerdy. It's just a first draft - probably not final. But I was really excited about the first results and wanted to share this with you all. I hope you like it! xxxxS
- published: 19 Jun 2011
- views: 962
- author: SadieJayneMusic
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey TRL A
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- Duration: 2:25
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. Director: Peter Jackson Writers: JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Stars: Cate Blanchett, Luke Evans and Elijah Wood
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Bilbo Baggins, a Hobbit, journeys to the Lonely Mountain accompanied by a group of dwarves to reclaim a treasure taken from them by the dragon Smaug. Director: Peter Jackson Writers: JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Stars: Cate Blanchett, Luke Evans and Elijah Wood
- published: 21 Dec 2011
- views: 718
- author: kinotrailers100
Lord of the Rings Medley
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- Duration: 4:04
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
Medley of tunes and song In Dreams from Lord of the Rings. featuring Siobhan Mewes and Replay. Acoustic recording from Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival. Music & lyrics by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh
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Medley of tunes and song In Dreams from Lord of the Rings. featuring Siobhan Mewes and Replay. Acoustic recording from Kangaroo Valley Folk Festival. Music & lyrics by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh
- published: 23 Oct 2011
- views: 162
- author: Mewebb2
3:32
Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh - Oscar Win & Acceptance Speech
Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. ...
published: 22 Feb 2012
author: professorenol
Annie Lennox, Howard Shore & Fran Walsh - Oscar Win & Acceptance Speech
Annie Lennox gives a moving acceptance speech at her Oscar win for Into The West in 2004. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 6458
- author: professorenol
4:00
Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song
Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: Th...
published: 03 Mar 2008
author: PetroleumHead
Emiliana Torrini - Gollum's Song
Official music video of Gollum's Song, the end credits song from The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, sung by Emiliana Torrini. Lyrics by Fran Walsh, music by Howard Shore. Lyrics: Where once was light Now darkness falls Where once was love Love is no more Don't say goodbye Don't say I didn't try These tears we cry Are falling rain For all the lies you told us The hurt, the blame... And we will weep to be so alone We are lost We can never go home So in the end I'll be what I will be No loyal friend Was ever there for me Now we say goodbye We say you didn't try These tears you cry Have come too late Take back the lies The hurt, the blame... And you will weep When you face the end alone You are lost You can never go home You are lost You can never go home
- published: 03 Mar 2008
- views: 1136315
- author: PetroleumHead
3:25
Annie Lennox - Into The West (live at the 2004 Oscars)
Annie Lennox performs Into The West at the 2004 Oscars. annielennoxsing.com www.annielenno...
published: 22 Feb 2012
author: professorenol
Annie Lennox - Into The West (live at the 2004 Oscars)
Annie Lennox performs Into The West at the 2004 Oscars. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 24482
- author: professorenol
2:02
Lord of the rings - The Breaking of the Fellowship - Piano
"The Breaking of the Fellowship" by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, for the motion picture " ...
published: 15 Jul 2010
author: futurerocknroll
Lord of the rings - The Breaking of the Fellowship - Piano
"The Breaking of the Fellowship" by Howard Shore and Fran Walsh, for the motion picture " Lord of the Rings". Performed on the piano by Joshua Eversham. Join me on facebook www.facebook.com or twitter twitter.com
- published: 15 Jul 2010
- views: 7991
- author: futurerocknroll
3:54
Annie Lennox - The Making Of Into The West
Behind the scenes look at the making of the Oscar winning song Into The West written by An...
published: 22 Feb 2012
author: professorenol
Annie Lennox - The Making Of Into The West
Behind the scenes look at the making of the Oscar winning song Into The West written by Annie Lennox, Howard Shore and Fran Walsh. annielennoxsing.com www.annielennox.com
- published: 22 Feb 2012
- views: 575
- author: professorenol
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Into the West - Relay for Life @ George Mason High School 2012
This was a live tribute performance sung by a 19 yr old cancer surviver accompanied by his...
published: 04 Jun 2012
author: gmhsfanofthearts
Into the West - Relay for Life @ George Mason High School 2012
This was a live tribute performance sung by a 19 yr old cancer surviver accompanied by his awesome younger brother. The speakers shared from the heart how the power of prayer and the love of the around them carried them to their healing. Praise Jesus! This well known song shares the hope of salvation beyond this life. "Into the West" is an Oscar winning song, written by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox, and performed by Lennox.[1] The song plays during the closing credits of the film, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[1]
- published: 04 Jun 2012
- views: 148
- author: gmhsfanofthearts
2:54
The Hobbit's Director Peter Jackson Wins For Best Director - Golden Globes 2004
Dustin Hoffman presents the award for Best Director to Peter Jackson for "Lord of the Ring...
published: 12 Jan 2011
author: AwardsShowNetwork
The Hobbit's Director Peter Jackson Wins For Best Director - Golden Globes 2004
Dustin Hoffman presents the award for Best Director to Peter Jackson for "Lord of the Rings." Jackson thanks the Hollywood Foriegn Press, Michael Lynne, New Line Cinema, Mark Ordesky Barrie Osborne, Fran Walsh, Peter Nelson, the cast, the crew and his fellow nominees. License Golden Globes Clips Here: www.dickclarklicensing.com
- published: 12 Jan 2011
- views: 7054
- author: AwardsShowNetwork
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The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (8/9) Movie CLIP - The Fall of Sauron (2003) HD
LOTR: The Return of the King Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to su...
published: 27 May 2011
author: movieclips
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (8/9) Movie CLIP - The Fall of Sauron (2003) HD
LOTR: The Return of the King Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The Fellowship watches as all evidence of Sauron is wiped from Middle Earth. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Sean Astin, Orlando Bloom, Billy Boyd, Ian McKellen, Dominic Monaghan, Viggo Mortensen, John Rhys-Davies, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King brings Peter Jackson's mammoth adaptation of JRR Tolkien's classic to a close in suitably epic fashion. Instead of starting just where the previous film left off, however, it goes far back in time to the moment the tormented creature Gollum first came to possess the One Ring. In this flashback, actor Andy Serkis (who voiced Gollum and performed his movements onset prior to the final CGI effects) finally gets to appear onscreen, portraying Gollum's former self, Sméagol. This disturbing scene serves as a potent reminder that the Ring seeks to corrupt even the well-intentioned Frodo (Elijah Wood), who is increasingly struggling with the dark power of the Ring himself. Thus, the film returns to the present, following Frodo, Sam (Sean Astin), and ...
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 100296
- author: movieclips
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An Encouraging Thought Scene - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Movie (2001) - HD
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to su...
published: 27 May 2011
author: movieclips
An Encouraging Thought Scene - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Movie (2001) - HD
LOTR: Fellowship of the Ring Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp Buy Movie: j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Gandalf (Ian McKellen) counsels Frodo (Elijah Wood) not to despair the responsibility given to him as bearer of the ring. TM & © Warner Bros. Ent. (2012) Cast: Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp Follow us on Twitter: j.mp Producer: Peter Jackson, Michael Lynne, Mark Ordesky, Barrie M. Osborne, Rick Porras, Jamie Selkirk, Robert Shaye, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Fran Walsh, Ellen Somers Screenwriter: Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson, JRR Tolkien, Fran Walsh Film Description: New Zealand filmmaker Peter Jackson fulfills his lifelong dream of transforming author JRR Tolkien's best-selling fantasy epic into a three-part motion picture that begins with this holiday 2001 release. Elijah Wood stars as Frodo Baggins, a Hobbit resident of the medieval "Middle-earth" who discovers that a ring bequeathed to him by beloved relative and benefactor Bilbo (Ian Holm) is in fact the "One Ring," a device that will allow its master to manipulate dark powers and enslave the world. Frodo is charged by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to return the ring to Mount Doom, the evil site where it was forged millennia ago and the only place where it can be destroyed. Accompanying Frodo is a fellowship of eight others: his Hobbit friends Sam (Sean Astin), Merry (Dominic Monaghan), and Pippin (Billy Boyd); plus Gandalf ...
- published: 27 May 2011
- views: 12290
- author: movieclips
2:26
lords of the ring - tyros 3
www.box.net for a MP3 version. En live. toujours....
published: 31 Jan 2009
author: soundphase
lords of the ring - tyros 3
www.box.net for a MP3 version. En live. toujours.
- published: 31 Jan 2009
- views: 12172
- author: soundphase
23:13
The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey - World Premiere Red Carpet Event
World Premiere Red Carpet event for 1st of the Hobbit Trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand -...
published: 04 Dec 2012
author: hariyoshi41
The Hobbit : An Unexpected Journey - World Premiere Red Carpet Event
World Premiere Red Carpet event for 1st of the Hobbit Trilogy in Wellington, New Zealand --- 28th of November, 2012 --------------------------------------------------------- Featuring Video of: -Neil Finn's live performance of "Song of the Lonely Mountain" - Air New Zealand plane fly-over - Weta Digital VFX Supervisor: Joe Letteri interview - Sir Peter Jackson's speech - Sir Ian McKallen message - Hobbit cast ensemble on stage --------------------------------------------------------- All video was shot using HTC One X ---------------------------------------------------------
- published: 04 Dec 2012
- views: 305
- author: hariyoshi41
6:51
King Kong 360 3D: Return to Skull Island Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour
Encounter King Kong himself and watch as he battles several T-Rex! Filmed at the Premier o...
published: 02 Jul 2010
author: sharpproductions
King Kong 360 3D: Return to Skull Island Universal Studios Hollywood Studio Tour
Encounter King Kong himself and watch as he battles several T-Rex! Filmed at the Premier on July 1st 2010 using two cameras.
- published: 02 Jul 2010
- views: 1031837
- author: sharpproductions
2:06
King Kong (7/10) Movie CLIP - Ice Skating in Central Park (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp In the quiet before th...
published: 16 Jun 2011
author: movieclips
King Kong (7/10) Movie CLIP - Ice Skating in Central Park (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp In the quiet before the storm, Kong and Ann (Naomi Watts) spend a private moment together skating on the frozen lake in central park. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 601924
- author: movieclips
3:27
King Kong (3/10) Movie CLIP - Kong Battles the T-Rexes (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Trying to protect Ann ...
published: 16 Jun 2011
author: movieclips
King Kong (3/10) Movie CLIP - Kong Battles the T-Rexes (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp Trying to protect Ann (Naomi Watts), Kong fights off a whole pack of T-Rexes. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Andy Serkis, Naomi Watts Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp Join our Facebook page: j.mp...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
- views: 6543098
- author: movieclips
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Playing Plastic Danso - Fran Walsh & Haward Shore - In Dreams in D
When the cold of winter comes
Starless night will cover day
In the veiling of the sun
We w...
published: 11 Feb 2012
author: charles tc
Playing Plastic Danso - Fran Walsh & Haward Shore - In Dreams in D
When the cold of winter comes
Starless night will cover day
In the veiling of the sun
We will walking bitter rain
But in dreams
I can hear your name
And in dreams
We will meet again
an....
When the seas and mountains fall
And we come to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
Calling me there. I will go there.
And back again.
Fran Walsh and Haward Shore
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Playing Fife - Fran Walsh & Haward Shore - In Dreams in F-Ab-G
When the cold of winter comes
Starless night will cover day
In the veiling of the sun
We w...
published: 12 Feb 2012
author: charles tc
Playing Fife - Fran Walsh & Haward Shore - In Dreams in F-Ab-G
When the cold of winter comes
Starless night will cover day
In the veiling of the sun
We will walking bitter rain
But in dreams
I can hear your name
And in dreams
We will meet again
an....
When the seas and mountains fall
And we come to end of days
In the dark I hear a call
Calling me there. I will go there.
And back again.
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Interview with FranMa
One Part of Emma's School Project...
published: 30 Dec 2010
author: Paul Walsh
Interview with FranMa
One Part of Emma's School Project
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Peter Walsh - Knowing You Were Loved / A Take Away Show
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published: 14 Apr 2010
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Peter Walsh - Knowing You Were Loved / A Take Away Show
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Into The West - Halcyon Chamber Choir
A small group from the Halcyon Chamber Choir sings "Into The West" at Halcyon - Live On Th...
published: 12 Apr 2011
author: SandraLeigh85
Into The West - Halcyon Chamber Choir
A small group from the Halcyon Chamber Choir sings "Into The West" at Halcyon - Live On The Air on March 27, 2011. Words and Music by Fran Walsh, Howard Shore, and Annie Lennox. Arranged by Alan Billingsley. Artistic Director - Hart Godden
- published: 12 Apr 2011
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THE HOBBIT; Casts Its Spell Over NEW YORK; PREVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and prod...
published: 08 Dec 2012
author: WorldConflictReport
THE HOBBIT; Casts Its Spell Over NEW YORK; PREVIEWS + INTERVIEWS
The Hobbit is a series of three epic fantasy-adventure films directed, co-written and produced by Peter Jackson and based on JRR Tolkien's fantasy novel The Hobbit (1937). The films are, by subtitle, An Unexpected Journey, The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2012, 2013 and 2014, respectively. The series acts as a prequel to Jackson's The Lord of the Rings series and will star Ian McKellen, reprising his role as Gandalf, Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, Richard Armitage as Thorin Oakenshield, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Smaug.[2] Several other actors will reprise their roles from The Lord of the Rings, including Andy Serkis, Hugo Weaving, Cate Blanchett, Christopher Lee, Ian Holm, Elijah Wood, and Orlando Bloom. Also returning for the production are a significant part of the production crew: among others, co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, illustrators John Howe and Alan Lee, art director Dan Hennah, and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie. As with the original trilogy, props will generally be crafted by Weta Workshop and visual effects managed by Weta Digital. Additionally, composer Howard Shore, who wrote the score for The Lord of the Rings, has confirmed his involvement in the first two parts of the film project.[3] The most significant new involvement in the trilogy is the participation of Guillermo del Toro, originally chosen to direct the films, as co-writer. The first film in the series premiered at the Embassy Theatre ...
- published: 08 Dec 2012
- views: 379
- author: WorldConflictReport
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King Kong (2/10) Movie CLIP - Dinosaur Stampede (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The crew gets caught b...
published: 16 Jun 2011
author: movieclips
King Kong (2/10) Movie CLIP - Dinosaur Stampede (2005) HD
King Kong Movie Clip - watch all clips j.mp click to subscribe j.mp The crew gets caught between stampeding dinosaurs and hungry raptors. TM & © Universal (2012) Cast: Jamie Bell, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Kyle Chandler, Colin Hanks Director: Peter Jackson MOVIECLIPS YouTube Channel: j.mp...
- published: 16 Jun 2011
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Amy Berg, director of West of Memphis at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Amy Berg sat down with Red Carpet Diary to talk about her new film West of Memphis. The fi...
published: 10 Sep 2012
author: redcarpetdiary
Amy Berg, director of West of Memphis at the Toronto International Film Festival 2012
Amy Berg sat down with Red Carpet Diary to talk about her new film West of Memphis. The film is about the infamous case of the "West Memphis 3" — three teenagers who were imprisoned for a heinous crime, despite overwhelming evidence of their innocence — has galvanized support from both the grassroots and such high-profile advocates as Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, and Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh. A live discussion follows the screening of this new documentary on the case and the movement it inspired.Distributed by OneLoad.com
- published: 10 Sep 2012
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photo: WN / Janice Sabnal
27 Dec 2012
Washington. Six people, including two young children, were left dead in weather-related accidents, as winter snowstorms complicated travel for many Americans in the Midwest and Northeast on Wednesday. Snow totals in parts of Indiana ranged from 6 to 12 inches, CNN reported. About 350 snowploughs were clearing roads throughout the city. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo told residents they should avoid nonessential travel ... IANS ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
photo: AP / Khalil Hamra, File
26 Dec 2012
Cairo • The official approval of Egypt’s disputed, Islamist-backed constitution Tuesday held out little hope of stabilizing the country after two years of turmoil and Islamist President Mohammed Morsi may now face a more immediate crisis with the economy falling deeper into distress ... Join the Discussion. The battle over the constitution left Egypt deeply polarized at a time when the government is increasingly cash-strapped ... The U.S ... " ... ....(size: 5.7Kb)
photo: US Navy / HMC Josh Ives
27 Dec 2012
Imperial adventures are nothing new in the Middle East. Neither is their glorification, as Peter O’Toole’s pained Lawrence of Arabia eternally reminds us. But for a decade or so now, things have been heating up, as if to coincide with climate change and fears of declining petroleum reserves ... The Belly for Belligerence? ... The question loomed over beltway intelligentsia like an ephemeral Gordian knot ... We’re All Hawks Now ... While George W ... ....(size: 9.3Kb)
photo: AP
26 Dec 2012
News of defection comes as activists say 20 people, including eight children, have been killed by shelling in north of country. Assad’s forces are hitting back at a string of rebel advances across the country. Photograph. Abdalghne Karoof/REUTERS. The head of Syria's military police has defected from the army and declared allegiance to the uprising against the president, Bashar al-Assad, according to a video and a Syrian security source....(size: 3.4Kb)
Business Wire
27 Dec 2012
BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--“The Hobbit. An Unexpected Journey” has surpassed the $500 million benchmark at the worldwide box office ... Pictures ... Warner Bros ... “The Hobbit ... Tolkien ... Tolkien ... An Unexpected Journey” is by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson & Guillermo del Toro, based on the novel by J.R.R. Tolkien. Jackson also produced the film, together with Carolynne Cunningham, Zane Weiner and Fran Walsh ... ....(size: 5.9Kb)
IMDb
27 Dec 2012
Thus she wanted to take on West Of Memphis, the documentary produced by Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh ......(size: 0.5Kb)
Otago Daily Times
27 Dec 2012
Recipients have included the Topp Twins, All Black captain Richie McCaw, Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson, his screenplay writer partner Fran Walsh, musical brothers Neil and Tim Finn, Whale Rider author Witi Ihimaera, Oscar-winning Weta special effects master Richard Taylor, Olympic gold medallist Peter Snell and former Prime Ministers Jim Bolger and Helen Clark....(size: 9.9Kb)
Kansas City Star
27 Dec 2012
LOS ANGELES -- Ian McKellen speaks in a wise, mellifluous baritone that contains just a hint of impish glee ... Tolkien and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ... An Unexpected Journey," which arrived in theaters Dec ... "He just popped out again." ... One of the four credited screenwriters on the movie, alongside Jackson, Fran Walsh and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally set to direct "The Hobbit," Boyens continued, "But now we know, the audience knows ... ....(size: 7.8Kb)
Sacramento Bee
27 Dec 2012
LOS ANGELES -- Ian McKellen speaks in a wise, mellifluous baritone that contains just a hint of impish glee ... Tolkien and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby ... An Unexpected Journey," which arrived in theaters Dec ... "He just popped out again." ... One of the four credited screenwriters on the movie, alongside Jackson, Fran Walsh and Guillermo del Toro, who was originally set to direct "The Hobbit," Boyens continued, "But now we know, the audience knows....(size: 7.8Kb)
IMDb
26 Dec 2012
IMDb
26 Dec 2012
along with executive producer Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh - examines the struggle to free the West ......(size: 0.5Kb)
Kansas City Star
26 Dec 2012
Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are ... OPENING IN HOLLYWOOD THIS WEEK. "Django Unchained" - Two years before the Civil War, a German-born bounty hunter enlists a slave to help track his latest quarry, offering him freedom and a chance to rescue his wife from a ruthless plantation owner in return ... Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino ... Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson ... ....(size: 8.0Kb)
Sacramento Bee
26 Dec 2012
Ratings by the Motion Picture Association of America are ... OPENING IN HOLLYWOOD THIS WEEK. "Django Unchained" - Two years before the Civil War, a German-born bounty hunter enlists a slave to help track his latest quarry, offering him freedom and a chance to rescue his wife from a ruthless plantation owner in return ... Written and directed by Quentin Tarantino ... Written by Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Guillermo del Toro and Peter Jackson....(size: 8.0Kb)
Collider
24 Dec 2012
The documentary West of Memphis, from director Amy Berg and producers Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh, tells the story behind the fight to stop the state of Arkansas from killing an innocent man ... with Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh ... I was going to work for two amazingly talented, passionate, hard-working producers, with Fran [Walsh] and Pete [Jackson]....(size: 8.5Kb)
The New York Times
24 Dec 2012
Mr ... Ms ... The men might still be rotting away in prison, were it not for support from filmmakers like Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (“Lord of the Rings”), who became involved and reached into their deep pockets, and celebrities like Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp, Natalie Maines and Henry Rollins, who rallied around the cause ... (Mr ... Berg, Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson, Damien Echols and Lorri Davis; released by Sony Pictures Classics ... ....(size: 6.9Kb)
Daily Press
24 Dec 2012
In 2005, many years into the three convicted killers' sentences, "Lord of the Rings" director Peter Jackson and his partner, Fran Walsh, saw the first of three HBO documentaries ("Paradise Lost," part one, first shown in 1996) arguing that the real killer was still at large. Jackson and Walsh joined a roster of celebrities — Johnny Depp, Pearl ......(size: 4.8Kb)
Celebrity Café
24 Dec 2012
Enter The Hobbit. An Unexpected Journey, and you are entering the realm of a mad scientist ... Journey is, at nearly, three hours, merely the first part of a bloated, self-indulgent package ... Had the adaptation (credited to Jackson, Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, and Guillermo del Toro, a new member of this filmmaking fellowship) been done in one film, it would most certainly have been a breathtakingly kinetic sight from start to finish ... 0 ... ....(size: 4.8Kb)
Not to be confused with Frank Walsh (disambiguation) or Francis Walsh (disambiguation).
| Fran Walsh | |
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| Born | Frances Walsh (1959-01-10) 10 January 1959 (age 53) Wellington, New Zealand |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film producer, musician |
| Years active | 1983–present |
| Spouse | Peter Jackson (1987–present) |
Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and occasional musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and Katie.
Fran Walsh has contributed to all of Jackson's films apart from his first feature Bad Taste. She won three Academy Awards in 2003, for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Original Song, all for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. She has received a total of eight Oscar nominations.
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Life and career[link]
Walsh was born into a family of Irish descent in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Wellington Girls' College intent on becoming a fashion designer, but eventually became interested in music instead. Occasionally taking time off to perform in a punk band named The Wallsockets, she attended Victoria University of Wellington majoring in English literature and graduated in 1981. Walsh got her screen break writing material for Kiwi producer Grahame McLean on 1983 television film A Woman of Good Character/It's Lizzie to those Close. Later she wrote scripts for his TV show Worzel Gummidge Down Under.
Walsh met Peter Jackson in the mid 80s during the final stages of production on his low-budget movie Bad Taste. Walsh has collaborated with Jackson on the scripts of all his subsequent films, after joining the writing quartet on his next film, black comedy Meet the Feebles (1989). The couple then reteamed with writer Stephen Sinclair on the horror-comedy film that they had begun writing before Feebles, zombie movie Braindead (retitled Dead Alive in the United States, 1992).
Walsh and Jackson explored new ground with the drama Heavenly Creatures (1994), based on the friendship of the Parker-Hulme teenagers, who famously later killed one of their mothers. The film earned the duo an Oscar nomination for the screenplay. Walsh gave birth to Billy in 1995 and Katie in 1996. They returned to a more familiar genre with Universal Studios horror-comedy The Frighteners (1996), their first film funded by an American studio. They were in talks with Universal to remake King Kong until 1998's Godzilla and Mighty Joe Young were first announced, and Universal decided against the film. Wanting to try his hand at fantasy, Jackson turned to Miramax to make a film based on the works of writer J.R.R. Tolkien. In 1998, New Line Cinema provided the necessary financial backing to make a three-part adaptation of Tolkien's classic The Lord of the Rings.
Walsh, with Jackson and Philippa Boyens, is credited for writing the screenplays for the The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) (Stephen Sinclair has a writing credit on second film The Two Towers). They shared many awards, including an Oscar for their adapted screenplay for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. She also was one of the film's producers and co-composer of two songs for Return of the King, namely "Into the West" and "A Shadow Lies Between Us", earning her one more Oscar that night.
Walsh, Jackson, and Boyens continued their screenplay work together for the 2005 remake of King Kong, which was given the greenlight by Universal after the Rings trilogy's success. The couple recently collaborated on a critically unsuccessful adaptation of the novel The Lovely Bones, and the two film adaptation of The Hobbit.
Walsh prefers to remain more private than Jackson or Boyens; she did not contribute an interview to The Lord of the Rings movie DVDs; however, she does feature on the director/writers' commentary. Her largely unaltered vocals were used as the screech of the Nazgûl in the films.
Filmography[link]
This is her selected filmography as screenwriter, unless noted:
- Worzel Gummidge Down Under (1986–89)
- Meet the Feebles (1989)
- Braindead (1992, screenplay, casting director, acting cameo)
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- Jack Brown Genius (1994)
- The Frighteners (1996, screenplay and associate producer)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, screenplay, producer, lyricist for "In Dreams", additional second unit director)
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002, screenplay, producer, composer for "Gollum's Song")
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003, screenplay, producer, composer for "Into the West" and "A Shadow Lies Between Us")
- King Kong (2005, screenplay, producer)
- The Lovely Bones (2009, screenplay, producer)
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012, screenplay, producer)
- The Hobbit: There And Back Again (2013, screenplay, producer)
References[link]
- "Fran Walsh: The Enigma". TheOneRing.net. 23 December 2001.
- LeVasseur, Andrea. "Fran Walsh". Allmovie. Retrieved 14 February 2005.
- "Fran Walsh". [1]. 22 July 2011.
- [2]. The Nazgul scream provided by Fran Walsh
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| Name | Walsh, Fran |
| Alternative names | Walsh, Frances |
| Short description | New Zealand filmmaker |
| Date of birth | 10 January 1959 |
| Place of birth | Wellington, New Zealand |
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| Annie Lennox OBE | |
|---|---|
 Annie Lennox performing at the Rally for Human Rights during the International AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna as part of her SING Campaign. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Ann Lennox |
| Born | (1954-12-25) 25 December 1954 (age 57) |
| Genres | Pop, rock, blue-eyed soul, New Wave, pop rock, R&B |
| Occupations | Singer-songwriter, activist, humanitarian ambassador |
| Instruments | Vocals, piano, keyboards, guitar, accordion, harmoniumflute |
| Years active | 1975–present |
| Labels | RCA, Arista (1981–2009) Island, Decca (2010–) |
| Associated acts | The Catch, The Tourists, Eurythmics |
| Website | www.annielennox.com |
Ann "Annie" Lennox, OBE (born 25 December 1954), is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s as part of the New Wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician David A. Stewart went on to achieve major international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Lennox is the most recognized female artist at the Brit Awards, winning a total of eight awards. She has also been named the "Brits Champion of Champions".[1]
Lennox embarked on a solo career in the 1990s with her debut album, Diva (1992), which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". To date, she has released five solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). She is the recipient of eight Brit Awards, four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine.[2] In 2004, she won both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.[3]
In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV charities in Africa. She also objected to the unauthorised use of the 1999 Eurythmics song "I Saved the World Today" in an election broadcast for Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni in 2009.[4] In 2011, Lennox was appointed to the OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes".[2][5]
Known as a pop culture icon for her distinctive contralto vocals and visual performances, Lennox has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone.[6] She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history" due to her global commercial success since the early 1980s. Including her work within Eurythmics, Lennox is one of the world's best-selling music artists, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.[7]
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Early life[link]
Lennox was born on Christmas Day, 1954, in Summerfield Maternity hospital, Aberdeen. Her father worked at the shipyard, and her mother was a cook until she became a housewife. Lennox was an only child and the family lived in a small two-roomed apartment in a tenement with communal laundry facilities. Despite her family's financial status, Lennox had piano lessons at school from the age of seven years at the cost of £4.00 per term. She was interested in singing and, with plenty of time to herself, passed some of the time by singing along to the popular music of the time, including music by The Beatles. She was an unhappy teenager, partly because of a struggle over boundaries for her independence with her overprotective father.[8] She attended Aberdeen High School for Girls, now Harlaw Academy.[8][9] In 1964, her early talent was demonstrated when she came second in a talent contest at a Butlins holiday camp. She sang the song "Mairi's Wedding".[10]
In the 1970s, Lennox won a place at the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied the flute and classical music for three years. She lived on a student grant and worked at part-time jobs for extra money. Lennox was unhappy during her time at the Royal Academy partly because she was lonely and shy, and she missed many history-of-music lessons.[8]
Lennox's flute teacher's final report stated: "Ann has not always been sure of where to direct her efforts, though lately she has been more committed. She is very, very able, however." Two years later, Lennox reported to the Academy: "I have had to work as a waitress, barmaid, and shop assistant to keep me when not in musical work." She also played and sang with a few bands, such as Windsong, during the period of her course. In 2006, the academy made her an honorary Fellow.[11] Lennox also was made a Fellow of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama that year.[12]
Music career[link]
1976–1990: Dragon's Playground, The Tourists and Eurythmics[link]
In 1976, Lennox was flautist with a band called Dragon's Playground, leaving before they appeared on TV's New Faces.[13] Between 1977 and 1980, she was the lead singer of The Tourists (initially known as The Catch), a moderately successful British pop band and her first collaboration with Dave Stewart. During the time they were in The Tourists, Stewart and Lennox were involved in a relationship, though this had ended by the time they formed Eurythmics.
Lennox and Stewart's second collaboration, the 1980s synthpop duo Eurythmics, resulted in her most notable fame, as the duo's alto, soul-tinged lead singer. Early in Eurythmics' career, Lennox was known for her androgyny, wearing suits and once impersonating Elvis Presley. Eurythmics released a long line of singles in the 1980s, including "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", "Love Is A Stranger", "Here Comes the Rain Again", "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves", "Who's That Girl?", "Would I Lie to You?", "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)", "Missionary Man", "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart", "Thorn in My Side", "The Miracle of Love" and "Don't Ask Me Why". Though Eurythmics never officially disbanded, Lennox made a fairly clear break from Stewart in 1990. Thereafter, she began a long and equally-successful solo career.
Lennox and Stewart reconvened Eurythmics in the late 1990s with the album Peace, their first album of new material in ten years. A subsequent concert tour was completed, with profits going to Greenpeace and Amnesty International.[2]
Lennox has received eight BRIT Awards, the most of any female artist.[14] Four of the awards were given during her time with Eurythmics, and another was given to the duo for Outstanding Contribution to Music in 1999.[15]
The 1988 single with Al Green, "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" (a cover version of Jackie DeShannon's 1969 hit), was recorded for the soundtrack of the movie Scrooged. Though it was produced by Dave Stewart, it was credited to Lennox and Green. This one-off single peaked at No. 2 on the US Adult Contemporary chart, No. 9 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and was a top 40 hit in the UK.[16][17] Lennox performed the song "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye", a Cole Porter song, that same year for a cameo appearance in the Derek Jarman film Edward II. She then made an appearance with David Bowie and the surviving members of Queen at 1992's Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert at London's Wembley Stadium, performing "Under Pressure".[18]
[edit] 1992–1993: Diva
Main article: Diva (Annie Lennox album)
Lennox began working with former Trevor Horn protegé Stephen Lipson, beginning with her 1992 solo début album, Diva. It was a commercial and critical success, charting No. 1 in the UK, No. 6 in Germany, and No. 23 in the US where it went double platinum.[19][20] Lennox's profile was boosted by Diva's singles, which included "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". "Why" won an MTV Award for Best Female Video at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, while the video for "Walking on Broken Glass" featured the actors Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich.[21][22] "Little Bird" also formed a double A-side with "Love Song for a Vampire", a soundtrack cut for Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 movie Bram Stoker's Dracula.[23] The B-side of her single "Precious" was a self-penned song called "Step by Step", which was later a hit for Whitney Houston for the soundtrack of the film The Preacher's Wife.[23] The song "Keep Young and Beautiful" was included on the CD release as a bonus track (the original vinyl album had only ten tracks).
The album entered the UK album chart at no.1 and has since sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK alone, being certified quadruple platinum.[24] It was also a success in the US where it was a top 30 hit and has sold in excess of 2,700,000 copies.[19] In 1993, the album was included in Q magazine's list of the "50 Best Albums of 1992". Rolling Stone magazine (25 June 1992, p. 41) described the album as "...state-of-the-art soul pop..." and it is included in Rolling Stone's (13 May 1999, p. 56) "Essential Recordings of the 90's" list. The album won Best British Album at the 1993 Brit Awards.[25]
[edit] 1995–2000: Medusa and return to Eurythmics
Main articles: Medusa (Annie Lennox album) and Peace (Eurythmics album)
Although Lennox's profile decreased for a period because of her desire to bring up her two children outside of the media's glare, she continued to record. Her second album, Medusa, was released in March 1995. It consisted solely of cover songs, all originally recorded by male artists including Bob Marley and The Clash. It entered the UK album chart at No. 1 and peaked in the US at number 11, spending 60 weeks on the Billboard 200 chart and selling over 2,000,000 to date in the United States.[19] It has achieved double platinum status in both the UK and the US.[24][26] The album yielded four UK singles: "No More I Love You's" (which entered the UK singles chart at No. 2, Lennox's highest ever solo peak),[17] "A Whiter Shade of Pale", "Waiting in Vain" and "Something So Right". The album was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Album at the Grammy Awards of 1996,[27] losing to Turbulent Indigo by Joni Mitchell, however, Lennox won the Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for the single "No More I Love You's".[28] Though Lennox declined to tour for the album, she did perform a large scale one-off concert in New York's Central Park, which was filmed and later released on home video.[29]
Lennox also provided an extensive solo vocal performance (without lyrics) for the soundtrack score of the film Apollo 13 in 1995.
In 1997, Lennox re-recorded the Eurythmics track "Angel" for the Diana, Princess of Wales tribute album, and also recorded the song "Mama" for The Avengers soundtrack album. In 1998, following the death of a mutual friend (former Tourists member Peet Coombes), she re-united with Dave Stewart.[30] Following their first performance together in eight years at a record company party, Stewart and Lennox began writing and recording together for the first time since 1989. This resulted in the album Peace. The title was designed to reflect the duo's ongoing concern with global conflict and world peace. The record was promoted with a concert on the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior II, where they played a mixture of old and new songs. "I Saved the World Today" was the lead single, reaching number eleven on the UK singles chart.[31] Another single, released at the beginning of 2000, "17 Again", made the UK top 40, and topped the US dance chart.[32] In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard Magazine, with Editor-in-Chief Timothy White describing her as one of "the most original and unforgettably affecting artists in the modern annals of popular music."[2]
[edit] 2003–2007: Bare and work in Africa
Main article: Bare (Annie Lennox album)
In 2003, Lennox released her third solo album, Bare. The album peaked at No. 3 in the UK and No. 4 in the US – her highest charting album in the US to date.[33] She embarked on her first tour as a solo artist to promote the album. The tour, simply titled Solo Tour, pre-dated the release of the album and visited both the US and Europe, with only a two-night stop in the UK at Saddler's Wells Theatre in London. The album has been certified Gold in both the UK and the US and was nominated for Best Pop Album at the 46th Grammy Awards.[34] The album was released with a DVD which included interviews and acoustic versions of songs by Lennox. The Japanese edition of the album features a version of Lennox's earlier hit "Cold" recorded live in Toronto.
In 2004, Lennox won the Academy Award for Best Song for "Into the West" from the film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,[35] which she co-wrote with screenwriter Fran Walsh and composer Howard Shore. The song also won a Grammy award and a Golden Globe award. She had previously recorded "Use Well the Days" for the movie, which incorporates a number of quotations from Tolkien in its lyrics. This song was not used in the film, but it appears on a bonus DVD included with the "special edition" of the movie's soundtrack CD. In mid-2004, Lennox embarked on an extensive North American tour with Sting.[2] In July 2005, Lennox performed at Live 8 in Hyde Park, London, along with Madonna, Sting, and other popular musicians.[36]
In 2005, Lennox and Stewart collaborated on two new songs for their Eurythmics compilation album, Ultimate Collection, of which "I've Got a Life" was released as a single in October 2005. The promotional video for the song features Lennox and Stewart performing in the present day, with images of past Eurythmics videos playing on television screens behind them. The single peaked at number fourteen in the UK Singles Chart and was a number-one US Dance hit.[16][17] On 14 November 2005, Sony BMG repackaged and released Eurythmics' back catalogue as 2005 Deluxe Edition Reissues.[37]
[edit] 2007–2008: Songs of Mass Destruction and AIDS activism
Main article: Songs of Mass Destruction
Ending her long association with Stephen Lipson, Lennox's fourth solo album, Songs of Mass Destruction, was recorded in Los Angeles with veteran producer Glen Ballard (known for producing Alanis Morissette's album, Jagged Little Pill). It was released on 1 October 2007, and was the last studio album of Lennox's contract with BMG. It peaked at No. 7 in the UK and No. 9 in the US.[16][17] Lennox stated that she believed the album consisted of "twelve strong, powerful, really emotive songs that people can connect to". If she achieves that, she says, "I can feel proud of [it], no matter if it sells ten copies or 50 million."[38] Lennox described it as "a dark album, but the world is a dark place. It's fraught, it's turbulent. Most people's lives are underscored with dramas of all kinds: there's ups, there's downs – the flickering candle."[39] She added, "Half the people are drinking or drugging themselves to numb it. A lot of people are in pain."[39]
The album's first single was "Dark Road", released on 24 September 2007. Another song on the album, "Sing", is a collaboration between Lennox and 23 prominent female artists: Anastacia, Isobel Campbell, Dido, Céline Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Fergie, Beth Gibbons, Faith Hill, Angelique Kidjo, Beverley Knight, Gladys Knight, k.d. lang, Madonna, Sarah McLachlan, Beth Orton, Pink, Kelis, Bonnie Raitt, Shakira, Shingai Shoniwa, Joss Stone, Sugababes, KT Tunstall, and Martha Wainwright. The song was recorded to raise money and awareness for the HIV/AIDS organisation Treatment Action Campaign.[40] Included among the group of vocalists are TAC activist members' own vocal group known as The Generics, whose CD of music inspired Lennox to make "Sing".[40]
To promote Songs of Mass Destruction, Lennox embarked on a primarily North American tour called Annie Lennox Sings, which lasted throughout October and November 2007.[41] The tour had 18 stops: London, San Diego, New York City (two dates), Boston. The venues generally were at medium-size theatres, except in New York, where one of the dates was a United Nations fundraiser at the Midtown restaurant Cipriani.
[edit] 2008–2009: The Annie Lennox Collection and departing from Sony
Main article: The Annie Lennox Collection
Finishing out her contract with Sony BMG, Lennox released the compilation album The Annie Lennox Collection. Initially intended for release in September 2008, the release date was pushed back several months to allow Lennox to recuperate from a back injury.[42] The compilation was eventually released in the US on 17 February 2009, and in the UK and Europe on 9 March 2009. Included on the track listing are songs from her four solo albums, one from the Bram Stoker's Dracula soundtrack, and two new songs. One of these is a cover of Ash's single, "Shining Light". The other is a cover of a song by the English band Keane, originally the B-side of their first single in 2000. Lennox renamed the song from its original title "Closer Now" to "Pattern of My Life". A limited 3-disc edition of the album included a DVD compilation featuring most of Lennox's solo videos since 1992, and also featured a second CD of rarer songs including a version of R.E.M.'s "Everybody Hurts" with Alicia Keys and Lennox's Oscar winning "Into the West" from the third Lord of the Rings film. The album entered the UK Album Chart at No. 2 and remained in the top 10 for seven weeks.[43]
Lennox's recording contract with Sony BMG concluded with the release of Songs of Mass Destruction and the subsequent retrospective album The Collection, and much was made in the press in late 2007/early 2008 about the apparent animosity between Lennox and the record company. Lennox stated that while on a trip to South Africa in December 2007 to appear at the 46664 campaign in Johannesburg, the regional company office of the label failed to return phone calls and e-mails she made to them for three weeks, and had completely failed to promote the Sing project as planned. Upon her return to the UK, Lennox met with the head of Sony BMG UK, Ged Docherty, who was "mortified" by the problems she had encountered with the South African branch. However, the debacle (partly inflamed when Lennox's dissatisfaction with the South African office was made public on her blog) led to press reports falsely stating that she was being dropped by Sony BMG. The record company themselves quickly refuted the rumour stating that Lennox's contract with them had merely been fulfilled and that they hoped she would consider remaining with them. The British tabloid, Daily Mirror, subsequently printed a retraction of its story about her being dropped by the label.[44]
[edit] 2010–present: Island Records and A Christmas Cornucopia
Main article: A Christmas Cornucopia
In August 2010, Lennox signed a new contract with Island Records in the UK and Decca Records in the US (both part of the Universal Music Group).[45] Her first release was a Christmas album entitled A Christmas Cornucopia, issued on 15 November 2010. The album is a collection of Lennox's interpretations of traditional festive songs such as "Silent Night" and "The First Noel", along with one new composition, "Universal Child", which was released as a download-only single on 13 October 2010. Lennox had previously showcased the song on the American Idol Gives Back TV show in April 2010. She sang the song "Angels from the Realms of Glory" from the album for the TNT special Christmas in Washington.[46]
A music video was produced for a second single from the album, "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen". Lennox also performed the track on the UK chat show Loose Women in December 2010, and was also interviewed.[47]
According to Metacritic, A Christmas Cornucopia has gained "generally favourable reviews".[48] Ian Wade of BBC Music gave the album a very positive review, saying "this collection could find itself becoming as much a part of the holiday season as arguments with loved ones."[49] Sal Cinquemani of Slant Magazine awarded the album 3.5/5 and said "Lennox seems more inspired on A Christmas Cornucopia than she has in years."[50] John Hunt of Qatar Today magazine gave the album 9/10 and said "in particular, the vocal work and musical arrangement of 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' are impactful to the point of being intimidating."[51]
Public image[link]
Charity and political work[link]
In 1990, Lennox recorded a version of Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" for the Cole Porter tribute album Red Hot + Blue, a benefit for AIDS awareness. A video was also produced.[52]
Lennox has been a public supporter of Amnesty International and Greenpeace for many years, and she and Dave Stewart donated all of the profits from Eurythmics' 1999 Peacetour to both charities.[53]
In 2006, in response to her humanitarian work, Lennox became patron of the Master's Course in Humanitarian and Development Practice for Oxford Brookes University.[2] In October 2006, Lennox spoke at the British House of Commons about the need for children in the UK to help their counterparts in Africa.[2]
On 25 April 2007, Lennox performed "Bridge over Troubled Water" during the American Idol "Idol Gives Back" fundraising drive.[54]
Lennox's 2007 song "Sing" was born out of her involvement with Nelson Mandela's 46664 campaign and Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), both of which are human rights groups which seek education and health care for those affected by HIV.[2][40] In December 2007, Lennox established The SING Campaign, an organisation dedicated to raising funds and awareness for women and children affected by HIV and AIDS.[55]
On 11 December 2007, she performed in the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway together with a variety of artists, which was broadcast to over 100 countries.[56] She led a rally against the Gaza War in London on 3 January 2009.[57]
Lennox opened the 2009 Edinburgh Festival of Politics with a stinging attack on Pope Benedict XVI's approach to HIV/AIDS prevention in Africa. She said that the Pope's denunciation of condoms on his recent tour of Africa had caused "tremendous harm" and she criticised the Roman Catholic Church for causing widespread confusion on the continent. Lennox also condemned the media's obsession with "celebrity culture" for keeping the AIDS pandemic off the front page. In an attempt to counter this, during her address, she wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "HIV positive". Lennox wore similar T-shirts at the 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concert at Madison Square Garden on 30 October 2009,[58] while appearing on The Graham Norton Show on 30 November 2009 (where she performed the new song "Full Steam", a duet with singer David Gray), also during a recorded performance for American Idol during a 21 April 2010 fund-raiser, Idol Gives Back, and most recently during a performance on the live Comic Relief show on 18 March 2011. In June 2010, she was named as a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for AIDS.[59]
Lennox also supports the Burma Campaign UK, a non-governmental organisation that addresses the suffering in Burma and promotes democratisation.[60]
In December 2010, it was confirmed that Lennox was in the New Years Honours List and would become an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in recognition of her humanitarian work. She received the award from Queen Elizabeth II on 28 June 2011.[61][62][63]
Gay icon[link]
Lennox has garnered a significant following within the LGBT community. According to The Advocate, "her distinctive voice and provocative stage persona have made Lennox a longtime gay icon."[64] With Eurythmics' music videos earning regular rotation on MTV in the 1980s, Lennox took part in the shaping of popular culture alongside other gay icons such as Boy George, Madonna, Morrissey, and Michael Stipe.[65]
'The House of Annie Lennox' Exhibition 2011 - 2012[link]
In 2010(?), Lennox approached the Victoria and Albert Museum (V+A) and asked if they would be interested in displaying some of her collection of costumes, accessories, photographs, awards, ephemera from her political campaigns and personal items which she'd had in storage.[citation needed] This collection, along with music videos and interviews, became 'The House of Annie Lennox' at the V+A from 15 September 2011 to 26February 2012.[66] The exhibition was more than doubled in size when it was installed at The Lowry in Salford, Manchester, which opened on 17th March 2012, (and is due to close on 17th June).[67] [68] The exhibition will then travel to Aberdeen.[citation needed]
Music videos[link]
See also: Annie Lennox music videos
Both as part of Eurythmics and in her solo career, Lennox has made over 60 music promo videos. The 1987 Eurythmics album Savage and her 1992 solo album Diva were both accompanied by video albums, both directed by Sophie Muller.[69] Actors Hugh Laurie and John Malkovich appeared in the music video for "Walking on Broken Glass", while the video for "Little Bird" paid homage to the different images and personas that have appeared in some of Lennox's previous videos.[22] The clip features Lennox performing on stage with several lookalikes (male and female) that represent her personas from "Why", "Walking on Broken Glass", "Sweet Dreams", "Beethoven", "I Need a Man", "Thorn in My Side", "There Must Be an Angel", and even her stage image from the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert.
Personal life[link]
Both of Lennox's parents died of cancer.[8] Her first marriage from 1984 to 1985 was to a German Hare Krishna devotee Radha Raman.[70] From 1988 to 2000, she was married to Israeli film and record producer Uri Fruchtmann.[71] They have two daughters, Lola (born 1990), and Tali (born 1993), who models for fashion chain Karen Millen.[72] A son, Daniel, was stillborn in December 1988.[73][74] Lennox describes herself as an agnostic[75] and lives in Notting Hill, London.[76]
Lennox was estimated to have a fortune of £30 million in the Sunday Times Rich List of 2010.[77]
Discography[link]
Main article: Annie Lennox discography
See also: Eurythmics discography
Studio albums[link]
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Awards and nominations[link]
Lennox has received a variety of major awards during her career:[78]
- 2008 – AMA Award of Merit for her work and her humanitarian efforts
- 2004 – Best Original Song ("Into the West")
- 1984 – Best New Artist (Eurythmics) (nominated)
- 1986 – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Eurythmics, "Would I Lie to You?") (nominated)
- 1987 – Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal (Eurythmics, "Missionary Man") (Won)
- 1993 – Album of the Year (Diva) (nominated)
- 1993 – Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (Diva) (nominated)
- 1993 – Best Music Video – Long Form (Diva) (Won)
- 1996 – Best Pop Album (Medusa) (nominated)
- 1996 – Best Female Pop Vocal Performance ("No More I Love You's") (Won)
- 2004 – Best Pop Album (Bare) (nominated)
- 2005 – Best Song Written For a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media ("Into the West") (Won)
- 1984 – Songwriter of the Year for Lennox and Dave Stewart
- 1987 – Songwriter of the Year for Lennox and Dave Stewart
- 1987 – Best contemporary song ("Its Alright, (Baby's Coming Back)")
- 1993 – Best Song ("Why")
- 1984 – Best British Female Artist
- 1986 – Best British Female Artist
- 1989 – Best British Female Artist
- 1990 – Best British Female Artist
- 1993 – Best British Female Solo Artist
- 1993 – Best British Album (Diva)
- 1996 – Best British Female Solo Artist
- 1999 – Outstanding Contribution to British Music (Eurythmics)
- 1992 – Best Female Video ("Why")
- 2004 – Best Original Song – Motion Picture ("Into the West")
- Honorary degrees and awards[85]
- 1986 – Associate – Royal Academy of Music London
- 1997 – Fellowship – Royal Academy of Music London
- 2006 – Honorary Doctor of Music – The Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
- 2006 – Fellowship – Edinburgh College of Art
- 2009 – Honorary Doctorate at the University of Edinburgh (awarded 20 October 2009), in recognition of her work in the field of HIV/AIDS, and her success as a recording artist.[86]
- Other awards / titles / ambassadorships[87]
- 2002 – Billboard Century Award by Billboard
- 2008 – OUT magazine honoured Lennox for her work in the HIV and Aids field. The top 100 most influential people in Gay Culture.
- 2008 – The British Red Cross Services to Humanity Award
- 2008 – Glamour Magazine's Inspirational Woman of the Year Award
- 2008 – Honoured at the 2008 Youth AIDS Gala, for her contribution in helping the fight against HIV and AIDS
- 2008 – The German Sustainability "special achievement" award for her commitment in the fight against HIV and AIDS
- 2008 – Webby Award for official website www.annielennox.com[88]
- 2009 – Save the Children "Amigo de los Niños" Award
- 2009 – Awarded the "Freedom of the City of London" by the British Red Cross for services to humanity in the field of HIV and AIDS
- 2009 – Nobel Peace Laureates for services to humanity
- 2010 – Patron of the Elton John Aids Foundation
- 2010 – Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Scotland
- 2010 – Ambassador for HIV/AIDS in London
- 2010 – UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador
- 2010 – Barclays Women of the Year Award
- 2010 – [International Service Award] for Global Defence of Human Rights
- 2010 – GQ Charity Woman of the Year Award
- 2010 – Harper's Bazaar Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2010 – OBE – Order of the British Empire for her work fighting AIDS and poverty in Africa
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External links[link]
- Official Annie Lennox website
- The SING Campaign website, founded By Annie Lennox
- Annie Lennox official YouTube channel
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| Howard Shore | |
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 Shore in New York on October 7, 2010 |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Howard Leslie Shore |
| Born | (1946-10-18) October 18, 1946 (age 65) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Genres | Classical, Orchestra, Film Score |
| Occupations | composer, orchestrator, conductor, music producer |
| Years active | 1978–present |
| Website | howardshore.com |
Howard Leslie Shore (born October 18, 1946) is a Canadian composer, notable for his film scores. He has composed the scores for over 80 films, most notably the scores for The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, for which he won three Academy Awards. He is also a consistent collaborator with director David Cronenberg, having scored all but one of his films since 1979.
He has also composed a few concert works including one opera, The Fly, based on the plot (though not his score) of Cronenberg's 1986 film premiered at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on 2 July 2008.,[1] a short piece Fanfare for the Wanamaker Organ and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a short overture for the Swiss 21st Century Symphony Orchestra.
Shore is a three-time winner of the Academy Award, and has also won three Golden Globe Awards and four Grammy Awards. He is the uncle of film composer Ryan Shore.[2] Shore serves on the Board of Trustees at his alma mater, Berklee College of Music.[3]
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Early life and career[link]
Shore was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the son of Bernice (née Ash) and Mac Shore.[4] He studied music at Berklee College of Music in Boston after graduating from Forest Hill Collegiate Institute. From 1969 to 1972, he performed with the group Lighthouse. In 1970 he was the music director of Lorne Michaels and Hart Pomerantz's short-lived TV program The Hart & Lorne Terrific Hour. Shore wrote the music for Canadian magician Doug Henning's magical/musical Spellbound in 1974, and he was the musical director for Lorne Michaels' hugely influential late-night NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live from 1975 to 1980, appearing in many musical sketches, including Howard Shore and His All-Nurse Band, and dressed as a beekeeper for a John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd performance of the Slim Harpo classic I'm a King Bee. Shore also suggested the name for The Blues Brothers to Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi.
Film scoring[link]
1979–2000[link]
Shore's first film score was to David Cronenberg's first major film The Brood (1979). He would go on to score all of Cronenberg's subsequent films, with the exception of The Dead Zone (1983), which was scored by Michael Kamen. The first film he scored that was not directed by Cronenberg was Martin Scorsese's After Hours.
Following After Hours, he scored The Fly (1986), again directed by Cronenberg. Two years later, he composed the score to Big (1988), directed by Penny Marshall and starring Tom Hanks. He then scored two more of David Cronenberg's films: Dead Ringers (1988) and Naked Lunch (1991).
During 1991, Shore composed the score for the highly acclaimed film The Silence of the Lambs, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, and directed by Jonathan Demme. He received his first BAFTA nomination for the score. The film became the third (and most recent) to win the five major Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, and Best Actress). Shore is the only living composer to have scored a "Top Five" Oscar winning film.
During 1993, he composed the scores for M. Butterfly (another collaboration with Cronenberg), Philadelphia (his second collaboration with Jonathan Demme), and Mrs. Doubtfire, directed by Chris Columbus. The latter two films were highly successful; Philadelphia winning Tom Hanks his first Oscar.
Shore scored another three films in 1994: The Client, Ed Wood, and Nobody's Fool. Ed Wood is notable for being one of the two films directed by Tim Burton that did not feature a score by Danny Elfman.
Shore continued to score numerous films from 1995–2001, including two David Fincher films, Seven (1995) and The Game (1997); also, he collaborated on two films with Cronenberg along with Tom Hanks' directorial debut, That Thing You Do!. Shore composed the score for the 2000 film The Cell.
2001–2005[link]
Shore's major success came in 2001 with his score to The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, the first film in the highly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy. The news that Shore would score the trilogy surprised some, since he was primarily associated with dark, ominous films and had never scored an epic of this scale. However, the score was hugely successful and won Shore his first Oscar, as well as a Grammy Award, and nominations for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA.
The following year, Shore composed the scores to Panic Room, Gangs of New York (replacing Elmer Bernstein), and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the second film in the trilogy. The latter two films were both nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, although neither won. Shore's score for The Two Towers was deemed ineligible for submission to the Academy, due to a new rule that disallowed the submission of scores which contained themes from previous work. This rule proved very unpopular, due to the fact that had it been present in earlier years, it would have invalidated various other sequel scores (such as Star Wars and Indiana Jones) from being nominated. As a result the Academy dispensed with this rule for future years. Shore did, however, receive a BAFTA nomination for Gangs of New York.
In 2003 he composed the score for the final film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. The film was the most successful film in the trilogy and the most successful of the year. Shore won his second Oscar for Best Original Score, as well as a third for Best Original Song for "Into the West", which he shared with Fran Walsh and Annie Lennox. The film was nominated for, and won a total of eleven Academy Awards, a record for the number of Oscars won by a single film, and a record that only two other films—Titanic (1997) and Ben-Hur (1959)—have matched. Shore also won his first Golden Globe, his third and fourth Grammy (the fourth for Best Song), and was nominated for a third BAFTA. The scores of The Lord of the Rings became one of the most successful film scores ever written, and the biggest success in Shore's career.
In 2004, Shore again collaborated with Martin Scorsese, scoring his epic film The Aviator. He won a second Golden Globe for the score, becoming the second composer to have won consecutive Golden Globes in the Original Score category. He also received his sixth Grammy nomination, and his fifth BAFTA nomination.
He collaborated again with David Cronenberg in 2005 to score A History of Violence, starring Viggo Mortensen. The film was a success and received two Oscar nominations. In 2006, he collaborated for the fourth time with Martin Scorsese, this time to score The Departed. The film was highly successful and won four Oscars, including a long awaited win for Scorsese, and Best Picture.
Although Shore was originally commissioned to compose the soundtrack for King Kong (indeed, he had already recorded most of the music), he was later replaced by James Newton Howard due to "differing creative aspirations for the score" on his and the filmmakers' parts. This was a mutual agreement between himself and Peter Jackson. Despite this, Shore has a cameo near the end of King Kong as the conductor of the pit orchestra in the theater, performing portions of Max Steiner's score to the original 1933 version of the film.
2006–present[link]
In 2007, he composed the music for Soul of the Ultimate Nation, an online multiplayer video game. The soundtrack is notable for being the first video game soundtrack to feature Lydia Kavina on the theremin. During 2007 he also composed the scores to The Last Mimzy, and Eastern Promises, the latter of which was another collaboration with David Cronenberg and earned Shore his fourth Golden Globe nomination. In 2008 he scored Doubt, starring Meryl Streep and directed by John Patrick Shanley. The film was a success, earning five Oscar nominations.
In 2010, Shore composed the score to the third installment in the highly popular Twilight film series, following Carter Burwell and Alexandre Desplat, who scored the first and second films, respectively. He also replaced John Corigliano to score Edge of Darkness, starring Mel Gibson.
Shore's 2011 projects are A Dangerous Method, continuing his long-term collaboration with director David Cronenberg. He also composed the score to Martin Scorsese's Hugo, his fifth collaboration with the director, which earned him a sixth Golden Globe nomination and fourth Oscar nomination.
Shore's future projects include Robert Sigl's The Spider[5] and Peter Jackson's The Hobbit,[6] which is currently in production. He is also set to compose the music to Sinatra,[7] and The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt,[8] both of which are being directed by Martin Scorsese and are due for release in 2013.
Conducting and performing[link]
Main article: Music of The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
Since 2004, he has toured the world conducting local orchestras in the performance of his new symphonic arrangement of his highly acclaimed Lord of the Rings scores. The new work is entitled The Lord of the Rings: Symphony in Six Movements. There are two movements for each of the movies, and an intermission between the second and third (or first and second, in some cases) movements. The concert presentation of the symphony also includes projected still images relating the music being performed to scenes from the films. Recently, however, Shore has been busy with other projects, leaving other conductors including Markus Huber, Alexander Mickelthwaite, and John Mauceri to lead the orchestras. April 24, 2008 marked the North American Live to Projection debut of Fellowship of the Ring, with the score performed live by the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Ludwig Wicki. Wicki also conducted the Filene Center Orchestra at the Wolf Trap Farm Park in Vienna, Virginia on May 21 and 22, 2008 in the U.S. premiere of the Fellowship of the Ring Live to Projection. September 16, 2010 Shore conducted the RSO Vienna (Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra) which performed "In Dreams from The Fellowship of the Ring" at Hollywood in Vienna in Vienna, Austria.
Television[link]
- Shore was commissioned by Macy's to write a Fanfare for the Store's 150th anniversary featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Wanamaker Organ, the world's largest playing pipe organ. The work was debuted in the Grand Court of Macy's Philadelphia Store on September 27, 2008 in a concert that drew reviews from most of the major East Coast newspapers.
- With John Lurie, Shore wrote the theme song for Late Night with Conan O'Brien. The theme was carried over to The Tonight Show when O'Brien succeeded Jay Leno as host.
Radio[link]
- Shore narrates a one-hour CBC Radio documentary/soundscape on music in thriller/suspense film genres also including references to radio dramas and other media. The episode was called "Unsettling Scores"[9] and premiered on the program called Inside the Music.
Awards[link]
Shore has received four Academy Award nominations, winning three, two for Best Original Score, for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003). He also won the Oscar for Best Original Song for "Into the West" from Return of the King. He received his fourth nomination for his work on Hugo.
Shore has also received six Golden Globe nominations, winning three consecutive awards for Best Original Score and Best Original Song - "Into the West" for The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Aviator (2004), making him the only the second composer (after Alan Menken) to have received consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Original Score. He also won three consecutive Grammy Awards for Best Score for each of the Lord of the Rings films, and received a second award in 2003 for the song "Into the West" from "Return of the King" in the category of Best Song. He has also received five BAFTA nominations, but has not won.
On June 11, 2007, Shore was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Letters Degree from York University in Toronto for "his sweeping artistic vision".[10]
Shore has also been honored with awards from The National Board of Review, Recording Academy Honors, The Broadcast Film Critics, Chicago Film Critics, Genie Award, World Soundtrack Award, New York's Gotham Award, and The Saturn Award for Science Fiction.
Shore is the first recipient of the Film & TV Music Award for Best Score for a Science Fiction Feature Film for The Last Mimzy.
On September 16, 2010 he was awarded with the Max Steiner Film Music Achievement Award by the City of Vienna at the yearly film music gala concert Hollywood in Vienna.[11]
Filmography[link]
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See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ LA Opera's announcement of the operatic production
- ^ NewsAskew Interview
- ^ "Board of Trustees". berklee.edu. http://www.berklee.edu/trustees/. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^ Howard Shore Biography (1946-)
- ^ The Spider at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ a b c Doug Adams (October 27, 2010). "Why NZ Matters". The Music of The Lord of the Rings Films. http://www.musicoflotr.com/2010/10/why-nz-matters.html. Retrieved November 1, 2010.
- ^ Sinatra (2013) - Full cast and crew
- ^ The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (2013) - Full cast and crew
- ^ CBC News. http://www.cbc.ca/radio2/itm-listenagain/2010/11/02/this-weeks-inside-the-music.
- ^ York University archives
- ^ "Hollywood-Komponist Howard Shore in Wien". 15 September 2010. Archived from the original on September 17, 2010. http://web.archive.org/web/20100917024845/http://kurier.at/kultur/2032577.php. Retrieved 22 September 2010.
- ^ Howard Shore to score ‘Twilight: Eclipse”[dead link]
- ^ The Spider (2011) - Full cast and crew
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| Place of birth | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
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| Guillermo del Toro | |
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 Guillermo del Toro in September 2011. |
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| Born | Guillermo del Toro (1964-10-09) October 9, 1964 (age 47) Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico |
| Residence | Agoura Hills, California, United States |
| Nationality | Mexican |
| Occupation | Director, producer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1984–present |
| Spouse | Lorenza Newton (?-present) |
Guillermo del Toro (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎermo ðel ˈtoɾo]; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican director, producer, screenwriter, novelist and designer. He is mostly known for his acclaimed films, Blade II, Pan's Labyrinth and the Hellboy film franchise. He is a frequent collaborator with Ron Perlman, Federico Luppi and Doug Jones. His films draw heavily on sources as diverse as weird fiction, fantasy and war.
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Early life[link]
Del Toro was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. He was raised in a strict Catholic household.[1] Del Toro studied at the Centro de Investigación y Estudios Cinematográficos, in Guadalajara.[2] He first got involved in filmmaking when he was about eight years old and studied special effects and make-up with SFX artist Dick Smith.[3] Del Toro participated in the cult series La Hora Marcada with other renowned Mexican filmmakers such as Emmanuel Lubezki and Alfonso Cuarón.
He spent ten years as a special effects make-up designer and formed his own company, Necropia. He also co-founded the Guadalajara International Film Festival. Later on in his directing career, he formed his own production company, the Tequila Gang.
In 1998, at the age of 34, Guillermo was given a $30 million budget from Miramax studios to shoot his second film, Mimic. During this time, his father, automotive entrepreneur Federico del Toro, was kidnapped in Guadalajara, Mexico. Although Federico was eventually released safely, there was intense economic pressure from his captors, to the point that del Toro's family had to pay twice the amount originally asked. The event prompted Del Toro, his parents and his siblings to move abroad. In an interview with Time magazine, he said this about the kidnapping of his father: "Every day, every week, something happens that reminds me that I am in involuntary exile [from my country]."[4][5]
Career[link]
Guillermo del Toro has directed a wide variety of films, from action hero comic book adaptations (Blade II, Hellboy and Hellboy II: The Golden Army) to historical fantasy and horror films, two of which are set in Spain in the context of the Spanish Civil War under the authoritarian rule of Francisco Franco. These two films, El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone) and El Laberinto Del Fauno (Pan's Labyrinth), are among his most critically acclaimed works. They share similar settings, protagonists (young children), and themes (including the relationship between fantasy/horror and the struggle to live under authoritarian or dictatorial rule) with the 1973 Spanish film The Spirit of the Beehive, widely considered to be the finest Spanish film of the 1970s.[6]
Del Toro views the horror genre as inherently political, explaining, "Much like fairy tales, there are two facets of horror. One is pro-institution, which is the most reprehensible type of fairy tale: Don't wander into the woods, and always obey your parents. The other type of fairy tale is completely anarchic and antiestablishment."[5]
He is close friends with two other prominent and critically praised Mexican filmmakers, Alfonso Cuarón and Alejandro González Iñárritu.[7] The three often influence each other's directorial decisions, and have been interviewed together by Charlie Rose. Cuarón was one of the producers of Pan's Labyrinth. After Blade II, Del Toro turned down many directing jobs for other films to do some of his other projects, he turned down directing jobs for Blade: Trinity and Resident Evil: Apocalypse to write/direct Hellboy. He also turned down The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe to do Pan's Labyrinth, for which he also received a Nebula Award for Best Script. He also turned down Resident Evil: Extinction, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, and Halo to do Hellboy II: The Golden Army. [8]
Del Toro has also contributed to the web series Trailers From Hell.[9]
On December 9, 2010, Guillermo del Toro launched Mirada with partners Guillermo Navarro (his long-time cinematographer), director Mathew Cullen and Executive Producer Javier Jimenez. Mirada was formed in Los Angeles, CA to be a collaborative space where they and other filmmakers can work with Mirada’s artists to create and produce projects that span digital production and content for film, television, advertising, interactive and other media. Mirada launched as a sister company to production company Motion Theory.[10]
Future projects[link]
In April 2008, Del Toro was hired to direct the live action film adaptation of The Hobbit. On May 30, 2010, Del Toro stepped down from the project due to an extended delay brought on by MGM's financial troubles. Although he removed himself from directing the film, he continued co-writing the screenplays.[11]
Del Toro is scheduled to direct four films for Universal; Frankenstein; a remake of Slaughterhouse-Five; and Drood, an adaptation of a Dan Simmons novel published in February 2009.[12] Drood was expected to be his first project after the two films set in Middle-earth. These projects would have filled up his schedule until 2017.[13] Part of the Universal deal entails continuing research and development for the creatures in At the Mountains of Madness.[14] In June 2009, Del Toro said he would only direct Frankenstein .[15] Del Toro is also in the early stages of development of Saturn and the End of Days.[16]
Del Toro said his Frankenstein would be a faithful "Miltonian tragedy", citing Frank Darabont's "near perfect" script, which evolved into Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein.[17] Del Toro said of his vision, "What I’m trying to do is take the myth and do something with it, but combining elements of Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein without making it just a classical myth of the monster. The best moments in my mind of Frankenstein, of the novel, are yet to be filmed [...] The only guy that has ever nailed for me the emptiness, not the tragic, not the Miltonian dimension of the monster, but the emptiness is Christopher Lee in the Hammer films, where he really looks like something obscenely alive. Boris Karloff has the tragedy element nailed down but there are so many versions, including that great screenplay by Frank Darabont that was ultimately not really filmed."[18] He has also cited Bernie Wrightson's illustrations as inspiration, and said the film will not focus on the monster's creation, but be an adventure film featuring the character.[19] Del Toro said he would like Wrightson to design his version of the creature. The film will also focus on the religious aspects of Shelley's tale.[20] Del Toro has stated that production on Frankenstein most likely will not begin for at least four years.[21] Despite this, he has already cast frequent collaborator Doug Jones in the role of Frankenstein's monster. In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Jones stated that he learned of the news the same day as everybody else; that "Guillermo did say to the press that he’s already cast me as his monster, but we’ve yet to talk about it. But in his mind, if that’s what he’s decided, then it's done ... It would be a dream come true."[22] The film will be a period piece.[23]
He has also expressed interest in video games after the Hobbit project, and hopes to be able to create a "Citizen Kane of games."[24] In an MTV News interview in late July 2010, he further clarified that his video game ambitions were a reality, stating that: "One of the things we're announcing in the next few weeks is a big deal with a big company. We're going to do games that are going to be technically and narratively very interesting. It's not a development deal. We're going to do it. We're doing them. And we're going to announce it soon enough."[25]
As of September 11, 2009 it has been made known that Guillermo del Toro has signed on with The Walt Disney Company to create a new label known as Disney Double Dare You. This new label will seek to create family friendly, all-ages animated projects that still manage to thrill and frighten.[26] But as of 2012 it is not known if he's still involved with Disney as he currently moved on to DreamWorks Animation since 2010.
In June 2010 news came that Del Toro would be writing and producing a brand new take on the story of Van Helsing. There is no word yet on if he will direct or not.[27]
At Comic Con 2010, del Toro made the surprise announcement that he will co-write, produce, and likely direct a 3D remake of The Haunted Mansion for Disney. Del Toro says the film will stray away from the comedic nature of the 2003 film and will revolve around the Hatbox Ghost from the ride.[28]
On 28 July 2010 it was announced that he would direct At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft for Universal Pictures, with James Cameron as producer. The movie was originally set up as a project at DreamWorks in 2004.[29] Just a month earlier, del Toro said that the Lovecraft adaptation probably wouldn't happen at all; "It doesn't look like I can do it. It's very difficult for the studios to take the step of doing a period-set, R-rated, tentpole movie with a tough ending and no love story. Lovecraft has a readership as big as any best-seller, but it's tough to quantify because his works are in the public domain." Not long after, he was approached by Cameron who asked him if he still wanted to do the movie. When del Toro confirmed he did, Cameron said “Let’s do it.” Both of them put forward the idea for Universal, which then greenlighted it.[30] Earlier the same year, del Toro also asked S. T. Joshi if he wanted to be a consultant if and when the movie got into motion.[31] It was rumored that del Toro was approached to direct the new Godzilla movie produced by Legendary Pictures, which he later denied.
Mountains of Madness did not receive the greenlight by Universal Studios, so del Toro's next directorial effort will be the giant monster film Pacific Rim, based on a screenplay by Travis Beacham, which was mistakenly rumored to be the basis for Legendary Pictures' Godzilla reboot, which del Toro was rumored to have been was approached to direct but later denied. Del Toro described the monsters in the film to be "Huge". The film involves giant monsters traveling through a vortex in the pacific rim where they attack major cities and humans must battle them by using mecha suits called Jaegers. He comments,"This is my most un-modest film, this has everything. The scale is enormous and I'm just a big kid having fun."[32]
Guillermo del Toro has also acquired the rights to produce the movie adaption of David Moody's novel "Hater"
On 18th August 2011 it was announced del Toro is going to be developing a new film version of Beauty and the Beast, with Emma Watson in mind to star. Crazy, Stupid, Love producer Denise Di Novi confirmed the filmmaker’s involvement, and said that she would be co-producing the movie with him.[33]
On June 2, 2009 Del Toro released his debut novel, The Strain, which he co-authored with Chuck Hogan. It is the first part of a vampire trilogy. The second part, The Fall, was released on Sept. 21, 2010, co-authored by Chuck Hogan as well. October of 2011 the last novel of the trilogy was released, Night Eternal with a possible future series release or movie for the trilogy.
At the 2010 Spike Video Game Awards, Del Toro announced that he is working on his first video game titled Insane, which is planned for release in 2013.
Del Toro also wants to direct a segment for an upcoming Heavy Metal 3.
On 21st September 2010, del Toro announced that he wanted to direct new adaptations of the Stephen King novels It and Pet Sematary, but stated that he is very busy and unlikely to be able to make the films any time soon.[34]
Personal life[link]
Guillermo del Toro is married to his high school sweetheart Lorenza Newton, cousin of Mexican singer Guadalupe Pineda. He fell in love with Lorenza when both were studying at the Guadalajara School of Sciences. He currently lives in Agoura Hills, California with his wife and two daughters, Mariana and Marisa.[4] In addition to home in which he lives with his family, he owns a separate house exclusively to house his books, posters artwork and other belongings pertaining to his work, explaining, "As a kid, I dreamed of having a house with secret passages and a room where it rained 24 hours a day. The point of being over 40 is to fulfill the desires you've been harboring since you were 7."[5]
In a 2007 interview, del Toro described his political position as "a little too liberal". He pointed out that the villains in most of his films, such as the industrialist in Cronos, the Nazis in Hellboy, and the Francoists in Pan's Labyrinth, are united by the common attribute of authoritarianism. "I hate structure. I'm completely anti-structural in terms of believing in institutions. I hate them. I hate any institutionalised social, religious, or economic holding."[35]
In 2009, in an interview with Charlie Rose, del Toro described his Roman Catholic upbringing as excessively "morbid," saying "I mercifully lapsed as a Catholic, I say, but as Buñuel used to say, "I'm an atheist, thank God." Though insisting he's spiritually "not with Buñuel" and that "once a Catholic, always a Catholic, in a way," he followed by saying, "I believe in man. I believe in mankind, as the worst and the best that has happened to this world."[36] He has also responded to the observation that he views his art as his religion by saying, "It is. To me, art and storytelling serve primal, spiritual functions in my daily life. Whether I'm telling a bedtime story to my kids or trying to mount a movie or write a short story or a novel, I take it very seriously."[5]
In a Q&A, del Toro said that he was a fan of first-person shooter video games, citing games like Half-Life, Call of Duty and BioShock and stating that "video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".[37] However, del Toro has stated that there are only two games he considers to be true masterpieces: Ico and Shadow of the Colossus.[38]
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||
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| Director | Writer | Producer | ||
| 1985 | Doña Lupe (short) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 1986 | Dona Herlinda and Her Son | Yes | ||
| 1987 | Geometria (short) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 1993 | Cronos | Yes | Yes | |
| 1997 | Mimic | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | Under a Spell | Yes | ||
| 2001 | The Devil's Backbone | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| 2002 | I Murder Seriously | Yes | ||
| Blade II | Yes | |||
| 2004 | Crónicas | Yes | ||
| Hellboy | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2006 | Hellboy: Sword of Storms | Yes | ||
| Pan's Labyrinth | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2007 | Hellboy: Blood and Iron | Yes | ||
| The Orphanage | Yes | |||
| 2008 | While She Was Out | Yes | ||
| Rudo y Cursi | Yes | |||
| Insignificant Things | Yes | |||
| Hellboy II: The Golden Army | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2009 | Rabia | Yes | ||
| Splice | Yes | |||
| 2010 | Biutiful | Yes | ||
| Julia's Eyes | Yes | |||
| 2011 | Megamind | Yes | ||
| Kung Fu Panda 2 | Yes | |||
| Don't Be Afraid of the Dark | Yes | Yes | ||
| Puss in Boots | Yes | |||
| 2012 | Rise of the Guardians | Yes | ||
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Yes | |||
| The Captured Bird (short) | Yes | |||
| 2013 | The Hobbit: There And Back Again | Yes | ||
| Pacific Rim | Yes | Yes | ||
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
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| 2007 | Academy Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 2007 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Film Not in the English Language | Pan's Labyrinth | Won |
| 2007 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 2006 | Cannes Film Festival | Golden Palm | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 2007 | Independent Spirit Awards | Best Feature | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 1998 | Saturn Award | Best Writing | Mimic | Nominated |
| 2007 | Saturn Award | Best Director | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 2007 | Saturn Award | Best Writing | Pan's Labyrinth | Nominated |
| 2008 | Saturn Award | George Pal Memorial Award | Won |
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References[link]
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- ^ "Guillermo del Toro Biography — Yahoo! Movies". Movies.yahoo.com. 1964-10-09. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800026601/bio. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ Wood, Jason, Talking Movies: Contemporary World Filmmakers in Interview Page 29
- ^ a b "We are a family of circus performers", El Mañana, 13 July, 2008 (in Spanish)
- ^ a b c d Cruz, Gilbert. "10 Questions: Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on the politics of horror movies, living in self-imposed exile and owning a man cave". Time magazine. September 5, 2011. page 80
- ^ Curran, Daniel, ed. Foreign Films, film review and analysis of The Spirit of the Beehive, page 161-2, 1989. Evanston, Illinois: Cinebooks. ISBN 0-933997-22-1.
- ^ http://www.beyondhollywood.com/del-toro-cuaron-and-inarritu-partners-up-with-universal/
- ^ Mills, Nicole. "NEWSMAKERS: 'Brothers & Sisters' and 'Ugly Betty' win GLAAD Awards; 'Baby Mama' tops the box office", The Austin American-Statesman, published April 28, 2008, accessed May 19, 2008.
- ^ Guillermo del Toro. Trailers From Hell!. Retrieved October 24, 2011.
- ^ Borys, Kit. "Guillermo del Toro, Partners Open Production Facility Doors" The Hollywood Reporter. December 9, 2010
- ^ "Guillermo del Toro departs The Hobbit". theonering.com. May 30, 2010. http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2010/05/30/36920-guillermo-del-toro-departs-the-hobbit/. Retrieved 2010-05-30.
- ^ "Del Toro Constapated To Universal Until 2017". Empireonline.com. http://www.empireonline.com/News/story.asp?nid=23174. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ Michael Fleming (2008-09-03). "Guillermo Del Toro booked thru 2017". Variety. http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117991560.html?categoryid=13&cs=1. Retrieved 2008-09-04.
- ^ "Del Toro Updates Hobbit, Frankenstein". SCI FI Wire. 2008-11-12. http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=62063&type=0. Retrieved 2007-11-13. [dead link]
- ^ Brendon Connelly (2009-06-11). "Guillermo Del Toro Confirms Hugo Weaving For The Hobbit... And Much More". /Film. http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/11/guillermo-del-toro-confirms-hugo-weaving-for-the-hobbit-and-much-more/. Retrieved 2009-06-12.
- ^ "Guillermo del Toro’s Saturn and the End of Days | /Film". Slashfilm.com. 2008-04-20. http://www.slashfilm.com/2008/04/20/guillermo-del-toros-saturn-and-the-end-of-days/. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ Mike Sampson (2007-10-26). "Guillermo talks!". JoBlo.com. http://joblo.com/guillermo-talks. Retrieved 2007-10-27.
- ^ Chris Hewitt (2008-02-08). "Guillermo Del Toro Talks The Hobbit". Empire. http://www.empireonline.com/interviews/Interview.asp?IID=740&CurrentPage=2. Retrieved 2008-02-08.
- ^ Max Evry (2008-10-05). "Guillermo del Toro on The Hobbit and Frankenstein". ComingSoon.net. http://www.comingsoon.net/news/hobbitnews.php?id=49378. Retrieved 2008-10-05.
- ^ Josh Horowitz (2008-10-14). "Guillermo Del Toro Talks 'Hobbit' Casting, Creatures". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/movies/news/articles/1596909/story.jhtml.
- ^ "Guillermo Del Toro Casts Doug Jones in Frankenstein". June 14, 2009. http://www.getthebigpicture.net/blog/2009/6/14/guillermo-del-toro-casts-doug-jones-in-frankenstein.html. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- ^ Frappier, Rob (June 24, 2009). "Doug Jones Talks Frankenstein, The Hobbit, & Hellboy 3". Screen Rant. http://screenrant.com/doug-jones-talks-frankenstein-the-hobbit-hellboy-3-robf-14560/. Retrieved June 24, 2009.
- ^ "Hobbits, monsters and CSI vampires". BBC News Online. 2009-06-05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/review/8084025.stm. Retrieved 2009-06-08.
- ^ "The Hobbit Director Del Toro On Games' 'Story Engine' Future". Gamasutra.com. http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23746. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/07/28/guillermo-del-toro-has-multiple-games-in-the-works-with-a-big-company/
- ^ "Hero Complex". Los Angeles Times. 2009-09-11. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2009/09/guillermo-del-toro-will-take-disney-on-a-scary-ride.html. Retrieved 2010-05-04.
- ^ "Guillermo Del Toro Writing And Producing New Van Helsing". The Film Stage. June 10, 2010. http://thefilmstage.com/2010/06/10/guillermo-del-toro-writingproducing-new-van-helsing-film/. Retrieved June 10, 2010.
- ^ "Guillermo del Toro enters Haunted Mansion", Reuters, 23 July 2010
- ^ Cameron to Produce Del Toro's 'Madness' for Universal
- ^ James Cameron Talks 9 Minutes of AVATAR Re-Release Footage, 3D Conversions, and AT THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS
- ^ S. T. Joshi's Blog
- ^ http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=19724
- ^ http://thefilmstage.com/news/guillermo-del-toro-developing-beauty-and-the-beast-for-emma-watson-while-potter-producer-finds-new-project/
- ^ By (2010-09-22). "Guillermo del Toro Would Like to Adapt Stephen King's It and Pet Sematary". Horror Yearbook. http://www.horroryearbook.com/5412476/guillermo-del-toro-would-like-to-adapt-stephen-kings-it-and-pet-sematary. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
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- ^ "A conversation with Guillermo del Toro". Charlie Rose. 2009-07-02. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10441. Retrieved 2010-03-14.
- ^ http://gamerant.com/guillermo-del-toro-video-games-dyce-45035/
- ^ Edge Staff (August 26, 2008). "Hellboy Director Talks Gaming". Edge Online. http://web.archive.org/web/20080831035622/http://www.edge-online.com/magazine/hellboy-director-talks-gaming. Retrieved May 23, 2012.
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| Born | (1961-10-31) 31 October 1961 (age 50) Pukerua Bay, New Zealand |
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Sir Peter Robert Jackson, KNZM[1] (born 31 October 1961) is a New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter, who is well known for his The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001 to 2003), adapted from the novel by J. R. R. Tolkien.
He won international attention early in his career with his "splatstick" horror comedies beginning with Bad Taste (1987) before coming to mainstream prominence with Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which he shared an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay nomination with his wife, Fran Walsh. Jackson has been awarded three Academy Awards in his career, including the award for Best Director in 2003; he also won the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Saturn Award for Best Direction the same year.
His films also include Meet the Feebles (1989), Braindead (1992), Forgotten Silver (1995), The Frighteners (1996), King Kong (2005),[2] The Lovely Bones (2009), and the upcoming The Lord of the Rings prequels The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (2013). He is also the producer of District 9 (2009) and The Adventures of Tintin (2011).
Jackson was made a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2002. He was later knighted (as a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit) by then Governor-General Anand Satyanand at a ceremony in Wellington in April, 2010.
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Early life[link]
Jackson, an only child, was born on 31 October 1961. He grew up in Pukerua Bay, a coastal town near Wellington. His parents - Joan (born Ruck[3][4]), a factory worker and housewife, and William (Bill) Jackson, a wages clerk - were both immigrants from England.[5][6] His father was a veteran of the Siege of Malta in World War II. He is distantly related to Richard Hill[7] a member of the English 2003 Rugby World Cup winner.
As a child, Jackson was a keen film fan, growing up on Ray Harryhausen films as well as finding inspiration in the television series Thunderbirds and Monty Python's Flying Circus. After a family friend gave the Jacksons a Super 8 cine-camera with Peter in mind, he began making short films with his friends. Jackson has long cited King Kong as his favourite film and around the age of nine he attempted to remake it using his own stop-motion models.[8] Also as a child Jackson made a WWII epic[citation needed] and a James Bond spoof named Coldfinger.[9] Most notably though was a 10 minute short called 'The Valley' which won him a special prize because of the shots he used.
In school Jackson expressed no interest (or skill) in sports. His classmates also remember him wearing a Duffel coat with " an obsession verging on religious."
Jackson had no formal training in film-making, but learned about editing, special effects and make-up largely through his own trial and error. As a young adult Jackson discovered the work of author J. R. R. Tolkien after watching The Lord of the Rings (1978), an animated film by Ralph Bakshi that was a part-adaptation of Tolkien's fantasy trilogy.[10]
When he was 16 years old, Jackson left school and began working full time as a photo-engraver for the local newspaper. For the 7 years he worked there, Jackson lived at home with his parents so he could save as much money as possible to spend on filming equipment. After two years of work Jackson bought a 16 mm camera, and began shooting a short film that later became Bad Taste.[11]
Career[link]
The splatter period[link]
Over four years (from 1983 to 1987) Jackson's first feature, Bad Taste, grew in haphazard fashion from a short film into a 90-minute splatter comedy, with many of Jackson's friends acting and working on it for free. Shooting was normally done in the weekends since Jackson was now working full-time. Bad Taste is about aliens that come to earth with the intention of turning humans into food. Jackson had two acting roles including a famous scene in which he fights himself on top of a cliff.
The film was finally completed thanks to a late injection of finance from the New Zealand Film Commission, after Jim Booth, the body's executive director, became convinced of Jackson's talent (Booth later left the Commission to become Jackson's producer). In May 1987, Bad Taste was unveiled at the Cannes Film Festival, where rights to the film quickly sold to twelve countries.
Around this time Peter Jackson began working on writing a number of film scripts, in varied collaborative groupings with playwright Stephen Sinclair, writer Fran Walsh and writer/actor Danny Mulheron. Walsh would later become his wife. Some of the scripts from this period, including a sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street, have never been made into movies; the proposed zombie film Braindead underwent extensive rewrites.
Jackson's next film to see release was Meet the Feebles (1989), co-written by the four writers mentioned above. An ensemble musical comedy starring Muppet-style puppets, Meet the Feebles originally began as a short film intended for television, but was rapidly expanded into a full-length film after unexpected enthusiasm from Japanese investors, and the collapse of Braindead, six weeks before filming. Begun on a very low budget, Meet the Feebles went weeks over schedule. Jackson stated of his second feature length film, "It's got a quality of humour that alienates a lot of people.. It's very black, very satirical, very savage."[12] Feebles marked Jackson's first collaboration with special effects team Richard Taylor and Tania Rodger, who would later work on all Jackson's movies.
Jackson's next release was the horror comedy Braindead (1992) (released in North America as Dead Alive), now seen as a landmark in splatter movies. Originally planned as a Spanish co-production, the film reversed the usual zombie plot. Rather than keeping the zombies out of his place of refuge, the hero attempts to keep them inside, while maintaining a façade of normality. The film features extensive special effects including miniature trams, stop motion and a plethora of gory make-up effects.
[edit] Heavenly Creatures and Forgotten Silver
Released in 1994 after Jackson won a race to bring the story to the screen, Heavenly Creatures marked a major change for Jackson in terms of both style and tone. The film is based on real-life events: namely the Parker–Hulme murder in which two teenage girls in 1950s Christchurch became close friends, some say lovers, and later murdered the mother of one of the girls. Jackson's partner Fran Walsh helped persuade him that the events had the makings of a movie; Jackson has been quoted saying that the film "only got made" because of her enthusiasm for the subject matter.[13] Many New Zealanders were apprehensive about how Jackson would treat the material, an apprehension that would later turn in many cases to relief. The film's fame coincided with the New Zealand media tracking down the real-life Juliet Hulme, who now wrote books under the name Anne Perry. Jackson would cast the actors Melanie Lynskey and Kate Winslet in the roles of Parker and Hulme. Heavenly Creatures received considerable critical acclaim, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay and making top ten of the year lists in Time, The Guardian, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The New Zealand Herald.
The success of Heavenly Creatures won Jackson attention from US company Miramax, who promoted the film vigorously in America and signed the director to a first-look deal.
The following year, in collaboration with Wellington film-maker Costa Botes, Jackson co-directed the mockumentary Forgotten Silver (1995). This ambitious made-for-television piece told the story of New Zealand film pioneer Colin McKenzie, who had supposedly invented colour film and 'talkies', and attempted an epic film of Salome before being forgotten by the world. Though the programme played in a slot normally reserved for drama, no other warning was given that it was fictionalised. Many were outraged at discovering Colin McKenzie had never existed. Some have argued that the number of people who believed the increasingly improbable story provides testimony to Jackson and Botes' skill at playing on New Zealand's national myth of a nation of innovators and forgotten trail-blazers.[14]
In the meantime, Jackson and Walsh had two children, Billy (1995) and Katie (1996).
Hollywood, Weta, and the Film Commission[link]
The success of Heavenly Creatures helped pave the way for Jackson's first big budget Hollywood film, The Frighteners starring Michael J. Fox, in 1996. Thanks partly to support from American producer Robert Zemeckis, Jackson was given permission to make this comedy/horror film entirely in New Zealand despite being set in a North American town. This period was a key one of change for both Jackson and Weta Workshop, the special effects company — born from the one man contributions of George Port to Heavenly Creatures — with which Jackson is often associated. Weta, initiated by Jackson and key collaborators, grew rapidly during this period to incorporate both digital and physical effects, make-up and costumes, the first two areas normally commanded by Jackson collaborator Richard Taylor.
The Frighteners was regarded as a commercial failure. Some critics[who?] expressed disappointment that it displayed little of the anarchistic humor of Jackson's early movies and that the script felt underdeveloped.[citation needed] In February 1997, Jackson launched legal proceedings against the New Zealand Listener magazine for defamation, over a review of The Frighteners which claimed that the film was "built from the rubble of other people's movies".[15] In the end, the case was not pursued further. Around this time Jackson's remake of King Kong was shelved by Universal Studios, partly because of Mighty Joe Young and Godzilla (1998 film), both giant monster movies, that had already gone into production. Universal feared it would be thrown aside by the two higher budget movies.
This period of transition seems not to have been entirely a happy one; it also marked one of the high points of tension between Jackson and the New Zealand Film Commission since Meet the Feebles had gone over-budget earlier in his career. Jackson has claimed the Commission considered firing him from Feebles, though the NZFC went on to help fund his next three films. In 1997, the director submitted a lengthy criticism of the Commission for a magazine supplement meant to celebrate the body's 20th anniversary, criticising what he called inconsistent decision-making by inexperienced board members. The magazine felt that the material was too long and potentially defamatory to publish in that form; a shortened version of the material went on to appear in Metro magazine.[16] In the Metro article Jackson criticized the Commission over funding decisions concerning a film he was hoping to executive produce, but refused to drop a client-confidentiality clause that allowed them to publicly reply to his criticisms.
[edit] The Lord of the Rings
Main article: The Lord of the Rings film trilogy
Peter Jackson won the rights to film J. R. R. Tolkien's epic in 1997 after meeting with producer Saul Zaentz. Originally working with Miramax towards a two-film production, Jackson was later pressured to render the story as a single film, and finally overcame a tight deadline by making a last minute deal with New Line, who were keen on a trilogy.
Principal photography stretched from 11 October 1999 to 22 December 2000 with extensive location filming across New Zealand. With the benefit of extended post-production and extra periods of shooting before each film's release, the series met huge success and sent Jackson's popularity soaring. The Return of the King itself met with huge critical acclaim, winning eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film was the first of the fantasy film genre to win the award for Best Picture and was the second sequel to win Best Picture (the first being The Godfather Part II).
Jackson's mother, Joan, died three days before the release of the first movie in the trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring. There was a special showing of the film after her funeral.[17]
Following The Return of the King, Jackson lost a large amount of weight –over 50 pounds (23 kg) to the point of being unrecognisable to some fans. In The Daily Telegraph, he attributed his weight loss to his diet. He said, "I just got tired of being overweight and unfit, so I changed my diet from hamburgers to yogurt and muesli and it seems to work."[18]
[edit] King Kong
Main article: King Kong (2005 film)
Universal Studios signed Peter Jackson for a second time to remake the 1933 classic King Kong — the film that inspired him to become a film director as a child.[19] He was reportedly paid a fee of US$20 million upfront, the highest salary ever paid to date to a film director in advance of production, against a 20 percent take of the box-office rentals (the portion of the price of the ticket that goes to the film distributor, in this case Universal). The film was released on 14 December 2005, and grossed around US$550 million worldwide.[20]
[edit] The Lovely Bones
Main article: The Lovely Bones (film)
Jackson completed an adaptation of Alice Sebold's bestseller, The Lovely Bones, which was released in the United States on 11 December 2009.[21] Jackson has said the film was a welcome relief from his larger-scale epics. The storyline's combination of fantasy aspects and themes of murder bears some similarities to Heavenly Creatures.
The film was an anticipated Best Picture Oscar contender, but ended up receiving poor reviews and middling box office returns. It currently holds 32% rotten on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Tintin franchise[link]
Main article: The Adventures of Tintin (film)
Jackson is the main producer on The Adventures of Tintin, directed by Steven Spielberg. He is officially labeled as producer but helped Spielberg, before he began working on The Hobbit, directing the film. He also supervised Weta Digital on the post production of the film. Jamie Bell and Andy Serkis were cast due to their collaboration with Peter Jackson on King Kong and The Lord of the Rings. Spielberg also chose to work with Peter Jackson due to the impressive digital work on the Lord of the Rings films, and knew Peter Jackson's company Weta Workshop would make his vision a reality.
In December 2011, Spielberg confirmed a sequel to his 3D movie will be made and are said to be based on The Seven Crystal Balls and Prisoners of the Sun.[22] He explained the Thompson detectives will "have a much bigger role". The sequel will be produced by Spielberg and directed by Jackson.[22] Kathleen Kennedy said the script might be done by February or March 2012 and motion-captured in summer 2012, so that the movie will be on track to be released on either Christmas 2014 or summer 2015.[23] In February 2012, Spielberg revealed to Total Film that they had completed a story outline for the sequel.
Current and future projects[link]
Jackson had talked of producing films for others as early as 1995, but a number of factors slowed developments in this regard, including the failure of Jack Brown Genius (1995). After he became a force in Hollywood, he was set to produce a $128 million movie version of the science fiction video game series Halo, but the project went on hold when financial backers withdrew their support.[24][25] The failure of Halo however led to what became District 9, which ended up being a box office hit and garnered a Best Picture nomination.
Jackson is set to produce a remake of The Dam Busters, to be directed by longtime Weta designer Christian Rivers and for which Stephen Fry has written a screenplay.[26][27]
Jackson has also won the rights to a film adaptation of the fantasy novel series Temeraire, a novel about dragons being used in combat in the Napoleonic Wars and a dragon named Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, written by Naomi Novik. It remains to be seen if he will direct it.[28]
Jackson produced District 9, a science fiction project which Neill Blomkamp directed. The script was written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell.[29]
In recent years, Jackson has also directed a short film entitled Crossing the Line to test a new model of digital cinema camera, the RED ONE. The film takes place during World War I, and was shot in two days. "Crossing the Line" was shown at NAB 2007 (the USA National Association of Broadcasters). Clips of the film can be found at Reduser.net.[30]
Jackson and his newly formed studio Wingnut Interactive are working on an unrevealed project being developed by Microsoft Game Studios in collaboration with Bungie Studios. The project has been officially titled Halo: Chronicles but beyond speculation little else is known about its nature. He was to be the executive producer on a Halo film, developed and released by Universal Studios and 20th Century Fox but in October 2006 the film was postponed indefinitely. The film was never officially cancelled and in late June 2008 Peter Jackson commented that, "With upcoming developments (Halo: Chronicles), I wouldn't know when to expect a movie, and I'm the producer."
Jackson spent $5 million to purchase 20 hectares of land in Wairarapa, a property containing a mansion, private lake, tunnel and the interior of Bag End from The Lord of the Rings. In 2009, he purchased a Gulfstream G550 jet; his total net worth is estimated by National Business Review at NZ$450 million.[31] Jackson owns an aircraft restoration and manufacturing company, The Vintage Aviator, which is dedicated to World War I and World War II fighter planes among other planes from the 1920s and 1930s. He is chairman of the Omaka Aviation Heritage Trust, which hosts a biennial air show.[32] In late December 2009 announced his interest on the movie adaption of the novel Mortal Engines.[33] In April 2010 it was confirmed that he would be both director and producer of the project and as of May 2010 it is rumoured that WETA has already begun preliminary work on the movie.
[edit] The Hobbit
Main article: The Hobbit (2012 film)
Jackson's involvement in the making of a film version of The Hobbit, has a long and chequered history. In November 2006, a letter from Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh stated that due to an ongoing legal dispute between Wingnut Films (Jackson's production company) and New Line Cinema, Jackson would not be directing the film.[34] New Line Cinema's head Robert Shaye commented that Jackson "...will never make any movie with New Line Cinema again while I'm still working at the company...".[35] This prompted an online call for a boycott of New Line Cinema,[36] and by August 2007 Shaye was trying to repair his working relationship.[37] On 18 December 2007, it was announced that Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema had reached agreement to make two prequels, both based on The Hobbit, and to be released in 2012 and 2013 with Jackson as a writer and executive producer and Guillermo del Toro directing.[38][39]
However, in early 2010, del Toro dropped out of directing the film because of production delays[40] and a month later Jackson was back in negotiations to direct The Hobbit;[41] and on October 15 he was finalised as the director[42][43]—with New Zealand confirmed as the location a couple of weeks later.[44] The film started production on March 20, 2011.
Games[link]
Jackson was set to make games with Microsoft Game Studios, a partnership announced on 27 September 2006, at X06.[45] Specifically, Jackson and Microsoft were teaming together to form a new studio called Wingnut Interactive.[46] In collaboration with Bungie Studios, Jackson was to co-write, co-design and co-produce a new game taking place in the Halo universe - tentatively called Halo: Chronicles. However on 27 July 2009, in an interview about his new movie District 9, he said that Halo: Chronicles had been cancelled, while Microsoft confirmed that the game is "on hold". Jackson's game studio Wingnut Interactive is now at work on original intellectual property.[47]
Charitable activities[link]
Jackson has given NZ$500,000 to stem cell research.[48]
He purchased a church in the Wellington suburb of Seatoun for about $10 million, saving it from demolition.[49]
He also contributes his expertise to 48HOURS, a New Zealand film-making competition, through annually selecting 3 "Wildcards" for the National Final.
Jackson, a World War I aviation enthusiast, is chair of the 14-18 Aviation Heritage Trust.[50] He donated his services and provided replica aircraft to create a 10 minute multimedia display called Over the Front for the Australian War Memorial in 2008.[51]
He contributed to the defense fund for the West Memphis Three.[52]
In 2011, Jackson and Walsh purchased 1 Kent Terrace, the home of BATS Theatre in Wellington, effectively securing the theatre's future.[53]
Style[link]
Jackson is known for his attention to detail, a habit of shooting scenes from many angles, a macabre sense of humour, and a general playfulness - the latter to the point where The Lord of the Rings conceptual designer Alan Lee jokingly remarked "the film is almost incidental really".[54]
Jackson was a noted perfectionist on the Lord of the Rings shoot, where he demanded numerous takes of scenes, requesting additional takes by repeatedly saying, "one more for luck".[55] Jackson is also renowned within the New Zealand film industry for his insistence on "coverage" — shooting a scene from as many angles as possible, giving him more options during editing.[citation needed] Jackson has been known to spend days shooting a single scene. This is evident in his work where even scenes featuring simple conversations often feature a wide array of multiple camera angles and shot-sizes as well as zooming closeups on characters' faces. One of his most common visual trademarks is shooting close-ups of actors with wide-angle lenses.
Unlike some other film directors, Jackson has remained in his native country to make films. This has been the genesis of several production and support companies. Most of Jackson's assets are found on the Miramar Peninsula in his home town of Wellington where much of his filming occurs; and he was instrumental in having the world premiere of The Return of the King in the city's iconic Embassy Theatre which he helped restore.
He was an early user of computer enhancement technology and provided digital special effects to a number of Hollywood films by use of telecommunications and satellite links to transmit raw images and the final results across the Pacific Ocean.[citation needed]
During filming of The Lord of the Rings, Jackson was famous for wearing shorts and going barefoot under most circumstances, especially during film shoots.[56]
Cameo roles[link]
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Peter Jackson in The Fellowship of the Ring (top), The Two Towers (middle) and The Return of the King (bottom).
Jackson usually makes cameo appearances in his own films:
- In The Lovely Bones, he appears as a customer in a camera store playing with a camera.
- Jackson appears as a biplane gunner attacking Kong in New York, reprising the cameo which original King Kong filmmaker Merian C. Cooper made in his 1933 film.
- The Lord of the Rings film trilogy includes multiple cameos. In The Fellowship of the Ring, Jackson plays a drunken, carrot-chomping citizen of Bree. In The Two Towers, he plays a spear-throwing defender of Helm's Deep. In his significant cameo in The Return of the King he is seen as the boatswain of a murderous corsair ship. This character is seen very briefly in the theatrical version. In the extended version he is onscreen for a longer period of time and is accidentally killed by Legolas's "warning shot". A detailed action figure of Jackson was made of this character in the same line as the rest of the Lord of the Rings toys.
- Jackson's second cameo in Return of the King is during the scene of Shelob's Lair, where Sam's arm (Jackson's) is seen entering the shot as Shelob is wrapping Frodo in webbing. This was due to Sean Astin's temporary absence, and Peter wanted to progress the production of the scene as much as possible, even without the actor.[57]
- In The Frighteners, Jackson is a biker bumped into by Frank Bannister.
- In Heavenly Creatures, he is the bum who gets kissed by Juliet Hulme.
- In Braindead, he is the mortician's assistant.
- In the puppet movie Meet the Feebles, Jackson appears as an audience member disguised as one of the aliens from Bad Taste.[citation needed]
He has also made cameos in several films not directed by him. In the opening sequence of Hot Fuzz (2007), he played a demented man dressed as Father Christmas, who stabs Nicholas Angel (played by Simon Pegg) in the hand.[58] Pegg, in the commentary, joked that when Jackson saw that his cameo was extremely short, he walked out of the theater and walked in circles in the hallway for the rest of the duration of the film.
Jackson's eldest son, Billy (born 1995), has made cameo appearances in every one of his father's films since his birth, namely The Frighteners (1996), The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, and King Kong. His daughter, Katie (born 1996), appears in all the above films except The Frighteners.
Jackson had a cameo on the HBO show Entourage in 5 August 2007 episode, "Gary's Desk", in which he offers a business proposal to Eric Murphy, manager to the lead character, Vincent Chase.
Filmography[link]
| Year | Title | Functioned as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 1976 | The Valley (short) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Prospector #4 |
| 1987 | Bad Taste | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Derek / Robert (dual role) |
| 1989 | Meet the Feebles | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1992 | Valley of the Stereos (short) | No | No | Yes | No | |
| Braindead | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Undertaker's assistant (cameo) | |
| 1994 | Heavenly Creatures | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Bum outside theater (uncredited cameo) |
| 1995 | Forgotten Silver | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Himself |
| 1996 | Jack Brown Genius | No | Yes | Yes | No | |
| The Frighteners | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Man with piercings (uncredited cameo) | |
| 2001 | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Man eating carrot in bree (uncredited cameo) |
| 2002 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Rohirrim warrior (uncredited cameo) |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mercenary on boat (uncredited cameo) |
| The Long and Short of It (short) | No | No | Yes (executive) |
Yes | Bus driver | |
| 2005 | Lord of the Brush | No | No | No | Yes | |
| King Kong | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Biplane gunner (cameo) | |
| 2007 | Hot Fuzz | No | No | No | Yes | Thief dressed as Father Christmas (uncredited cameo) |
| Entourage (TV series) (episode: "Gary's Desk") |
No | No | No | Yes | Himself | |
| 2008 | Crossing the Line (short) | Yes | Yes | No | No | |
| 2009 | District 9 | No | No | Yes | No | |
| The Lovely Bones | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Man at pharmacy (uncredited cameo) | |
| 2011 | The Adventures of Tintin | No | No | Yes | No | |
| 2012 | West of Memphis | No | No | Yes | No | |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ||
| 2013 | The Hobbit: There And Back Again | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | |
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Academy Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Heavenly Creatures | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
| Best Director | Nominated | |||
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | |
| 2004 | Best Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | |
| Best Director | Won | |||
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2010 | Best Picture | District 9 | Nominated | |
| 2002 | Australian Film Institute Awards | Best Foreign Film | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Won |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Won | ||
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
| 2002 | British Academy Film Awards | Best Film | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Won |
| David Lean Award for Direction | Won | |||
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best Film | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | |
| David Lean Award for Direction | Nominated | |||
| 2004 | Best Film | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | |
| David Lean Award for Direction | Nominated | |||
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Won | |||
| 2002 | Critics' Choice Awards | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
| 2006 | King Kong | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Directors Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Directing - Motion Pictures | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
| 2002 | Golden Globe Awards | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
| 2006 | King Kong | Nominated | ||
| 1993 | New Zealand Film and TV Awards | Best Director - Film | Braindead | Won |
| Best Screenplay - Film | Won | |||
| 1995 | Best Director - Film | Heavenly Creatures | Won | |
| 2002 | Producers Guild of America Awards | Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Picture | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated |
| 2003 | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | ||
| 2010 | District 9 | Nominated | ||
| 2011 | Outstanding Producer of Animated Theatrical Motion Picture | The Adventures of Tintin | Won | |
| 1997 | Saturn Awards | Best Director | The Frighteners | Nominated |
| Best Writing | Nominated | |||
| 2002 | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Won | |
| Best Writing | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Nominated | |
| Best Writing | Nominated | |||
| 2004 | Best Director | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Won | |
| Best Writing | Won | |||
| 2006 | Best Director | King Kong | Won | |
| Best Writing | Nominated | |||
| 1995 | Writers Guild of America Awards | Best Original Screenplay | Heavenly Creatures | Nominated |
| 2002 | Best Adapted Screenplay | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Nominated | |
| 2004 | The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Nominated |
Jackson was appointed a Companion in the New Zealand Order of Merit, in the 2002 New Year Honours.[59] In 2010 he was advanced to Knight Companion of New Zealand. The investiture ceremony took place at Premier House in Wellington on 28 April 2010.[60]
Bibliography[link]
- Brian Sibley. Peter Jackson- A Film-maker's Journey. Sydney, HarperCollins, 2006. ISBN 0-7322-8562-3.
- Ian Pryor. Peter Jackson- From prince of splatter to lord of the rings. Auckland, Random House, 2003, New York, St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN 1-86941-555-8 (NZ Edition)
- Andrea Bordoni, Matteo Marino, "Peter Jackson". Milan, Il Castoro, 2002. ISBN 978-88-8033-225-1. The first book-length study of the director.(Italian)
See also[link]
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- ^ "This gorilla of a film is blockbuster of the year". Daily Mail (London). 5 December 2005. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/bazbamigboye.html?in_article_id=370370&in_page_id=1794&in_a_source.
- ^ Pryor, Ian (2003). Peter Jackson: From Prince of Splatter to Lord of the Rings (Paperback edition ed.). Random House. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-7528-6970-4.
- ^ Hill, Richard (2006). Richard Hill: The Autobigraphy (Hardcover edition ed.). Orion Books. p. 22. ISBN 1-86941-555-8.
- ^ "FilmReference.com". FilmReference.com. http://www.filmreference.com/film/87/Peter-Jackson.html. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ David Smith (30 November 2003). "Guardian.co.uk". Guardian (London). http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2003/nov/30/lordoftherings.features. Retrieved 24 March 2010.
- ^ Hill. Richard Hill: The Autobigraphy. pp. 223.
- ^ Paul Fischer (5 December 2005). "Interview: Peter Jackson "King Kong"". Gorilla Nation. http://www.darkhorizons.com/interviews/623/peter-jackson-for-king-kong-. Retrieved 27 May 2009.
- ^ Gandert, Sean (11 December 2009). "Salute Your Shorts: Peter Jackson's "Forgotten Silver"". Paste Magazine. http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2009/12/salute-your-shorts-peter-jacksons-forgotten-silver.html. Retrieved 26 May 2010.
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- ^ Achievement.org interview, 3 June 2006
- ^ Ian Pryor, 'Meet the Feebles', Evening Post, 24 August 1989, p.25.
- ^ Andy Webster, 'The Frightener', Premiere, August 1996, p.26.
- ^ Geoff Chapple, 'Gone, not forgotten', New Zealand Listener, 25 November 1995, p.26.
- ^ Philip Matthews, 'Spectral Steel', New Zealand Listener, 14 December 1996
- ^ Andrew Heal, 'Horror story', Metro, December 1997
- ^ "Charlie Rose - Peter Jackson", February 2004
- ^ "Peter Jackson's muesli diet secret", kongisking.net, 12 April
- ^ "Peter Jackson's Labor of Love" by Stone Phillips, MSNBC, 2 December 2005
- ^ King Kong figures from Box Office Mojo
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- ^ a b AFP (December 13, 2011). "Spielberg announces new Tintin movie". Google News. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gJE9Z-SXPv0AItjGdknjmOqfLNGw?docId=CNG.908b271c4ec03309357a9d96165f22d0.961. Retrieved December 13, 2011.
- ^ Adam Chitwood (December 4, 2011). "Producer Kathleen Kennedy Talks JURASSIC PARK 4, a 3D Re-Release for JURASSIC PARK, and the TINTIN Sequel". collider.com. http://collider.com/kathleen-kennedy-jurassic-park-4-tintin-sequel-jurassic-park-3d/130315/. Retrieved January 7, 2012.
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- ^ DreadCentral.com, Peter Jackson Revving His Mortal Engines
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| Short description | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
| Date of birth | 1961-10-31 |
| Place of birth | Pukerua Bay, New Zealand |
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Frances "Fran" Walsh, Lady Jackson, MNZM (born January 10, 1959) is a screenwriter, film producer and occasional musician. She is the wife of filmmaker Peter Jackson. They have two children: Billy and Katie.
Fran Walsh has contributed to all of Jackson's films apart from his first feature Bad Taste. She won three Academy Awards in 2003, for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Picture, and Best Original Song, all for the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. She has received a total of eight Oscar nominations.
Walsh was born into a family of Irish descent in Wellington, New Zealand, and attended Wellington Girls' College intent on becoming a fashion designer, but eventually became interested in music instead. Occasionally taking time off to perform in a punk band named The Wallsockets, she attended Victoria University of Wellington majoring in English literature and graduated in 1981. Walsh got her screen break writing material for Kiwi producer Grahame McLean on 1983 television film A Woman of Good Character/It's Lizzie to those Close. Later she wrote scripts for his TV show Worzel Gummidge Down Under.
